Date: 1667
"To cast the Coit is pretty childish play. / It's sad for Coin to sling the Soul away"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
" Good Conscience is the only Ark that can / Ding down the Dagons of all deeds prophane"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Good Conscience will speak within, when all breath, / The doors are shut to ev'ry vocal call."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[T]he soul / Reason receives, and reason is her being, / Discursive, or intuitive; discourse / Is oftest Yours, the latter most is ours, / Differing but in degree, of kind the same."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Easier than air with air, if Spirits embrace / Total they mix."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[H]orrour and doubt distract / His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir / The Hell within him; for within him Hell / He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell / One step, no more than from himself, can fly / By change of place."
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Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)
Date: 1675
"Thou say'st, the spirit is a silent voyce, / VVhence is it then thou mak'st so great a noyse?"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
The soul "'tis blurr'd, and soil'd by filthy dust / O 'tis defac'd and spoil'd by means of Lust"
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