Date: 1685
One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"O Seal mine Image on thy Heart, / O Seal it on thy Arm"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1691
The Lord may "bear our Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"O set thine Image on my Heart! / O seal it on my Arm!"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: November 18, 1697
"But when they read the Volumes of his Mind, / (Vast Tomes!) and Search'd the Closets of his Brain, / What endless Sums of Wisdom did they find?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1697
"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1699
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair unwritten blank remain'd."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1699
"Reason has little now to do but prove / That some most perfect Being rules above, / And this by little Inference we find: / 'Tis plain; 'tis bright, 'tis written on the Mind."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1700
"Better the Mind no Notions had retain'd, / But still a fair Unwritten Blank remain'd; / For now, who Truth from Falshood wou'd discern; / must first disrobe the Mind, and all Unlearn."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)