Date: 1620
The ideas of the divine "are the creator's own stamp upon creation, impressed and defined in matter by true and exquisite lines"
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1620
"For when we try to recollect or call a thing to mind, if we have no prenotion or perception of what we are seeking, we seek and toil and wander here and there, as if in infinite space."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1620
"Lastly, knowing how much the sight of man's mind is distracted by experience and history, and how hard it is at the first (especially for minds either tender or preoccupied) to become familiar with nature, I not unfrequently subjoin observations of my own, being as the first offers, inclinations...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1620
"For every one (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolours the light of nature; owing either to his own proper and peculiar nature; or to his education and conversation with others; or to the reading of books, and the authorit...
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1621
"And such are those, whose wily, waxen minde /Takes every Seal, and sails with every Winde"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1621
One may have " A waxen mildnes in a steely minde"
preview | full record— Sylvester, Joshua (1562/3-;1618)
Date: 1624, 1628
"Heu dolor! caveae membra fuere meae. / Pes compes, manicaeque manus, nervique catenae, / Ossaque cancellis nativa repagula claustri, / Damner ut hospitii compede vincta mei?" ["Alas, what misery! that the light poured me forth on these unhappy airs! My very limbs are a prison to me. Feet fetters...
preview | full record— Hugo, Herman (1588-1629)
Date: 1630
"Now when the soul, which is of a sociable nature, finds anything like to itself, it is like Adam when Eve was brought to him."
preview | full record— Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
Date: 1632
"Looke as it is with a Gold smith that melteth the metall that he is to make a vessell of, if after the melting thereof, there follow a cooling, it had beene as good it had never beene melted, it is as hard, haply harder, as unfit, haply unfitter, then it was before to make vessell of; but after ...
preview | full record— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
Date: 1633
"If they be two, they are two so / As stiffe twin compasses are two, / Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if the'other doe."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)