Date: 1633
"within my heart I made / Closets; and in them many a chest; / And like a master in my trade, / In those chests, boxes; in each box, a till: / Yet grief knows all, and enters when he will."
preview | full record— Herbert, George (1593-1633)
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: 1657
"Cupid denied of this did backward start, / And ran for hast to hide him in her heart, / Where he renewed fresh flames, and by delay, / So I corcht his wings he could not fly away / Thus force perforce in her my conquer'd breast / Is the poore Inne of such a God-borne guest, / Whom while I harbor...
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1658
"Wit, Understanding, Memory, and Will, / The pallace of the soul inhabit still."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1660
"A silent night inhabits my sad breast, / And now no chearful thought will be my guest."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1664
"Or if that Lady, in whose Breast, / My fled Heart, is lodg'd a Guest, / Will Exchange (but Oh! I fear / Her's, is stray'd, some other where) / I may Live"
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Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
Conscience "is our Patron, our Apologist; / It is impartial, active, and sincere, / Gods Register in us; his Harbinger / For to prepare his way; this is beside / Mans faithful Surety, Treasurer and Guide."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Oft in her absence mimick Fancy wakes / To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, / Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; / Ill matching words and deeds long past or late."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)