Date: 1588
"My mind to me a kingdom is; / Such perfect joy therein I find / That it excels all other bliss / Which God or nature hath assign'd."
preview | full record— Dyer, Sir Edward (1543-1607)
Date: 1609
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past, / I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, / And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1635
"Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1658
In "Man's head ... madam Reason is enthron'd, her grace / Reignes like an Empress in the highest place."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"My lady Will, resideth in the brain; / The Judgment there, there doth Minerva raigne"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1661
"[Y]et is my Will / Free, as the Conquerour's: and Rome shall finde, / I still retain the Empire of my Minde, / That stands above her reach, where I alone / Will rule, and scorn to live, but on a Throne."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"Him th'unhappy Queen / Views with an earnest Eye, and Entertains / With Smiles: for Love within her Bosom Reigns."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1661
"To Liberty / A Bowl is crown'd, which all as greedily / Quaff off, as if in it they thought to finde / Their Wish, and Sense of Bondage from the Minde / Expel."
preview | full record— Ross, Thomas (bap. 1620, d. 1675)
Date: 1664
"But swift Desires, / Transport my passions, to a Throne of Rest"
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1667
"O please to make my heart thy lesser Throne."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)