Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"So much the rather thou, celestial Light, / Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate; there plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Thus fenced, and, as they thought, their shame in part / Covered, but not at rest or ease of mind, / They sat them down to weep; nor only tears / Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within / Began to rise, high passions, anger, hate, / Mistrust, suspicion, discord; and shook sore / Their ...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1673
" For tho the adulterations of art, can represent in the same Face beauty in one position, and deformity in another, yet nature is more sincere, and never meant a serene and clear forhead, should be the frontispiece to a cloudy tempestuous heart."
preview | full record— Allestree, Richard (1611/2-1681)
Date: 1674
"This Glandule which he supposeth to be so easily flexible and yielding to contrary impulses, is not loosely suspended, but fixed: so that whoever hath once beheld the solid basis, strong consistence, and firm connexion thereof, will hardly ever be brought to allow it capable of any impulse to ei...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"My rage he scorns, and negligent appears, / And thinks the Storm will melt away in tears"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastning."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1681
"[H]ere's the wit of a Tarpawlin now; one ruffling Storm frights away all their brains, to make room for the fumes that make them Valiant"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1682
"Betwixt violent Passion, and a Fluctuation, or Wambling of the Mind, there is such a Difference, as betwixt the Agitation of a Storm, and the Nauseous Sickness of a Calm."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1684
"Bad Fogs produce in clearer Reason's sky"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1685
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)