Date: 1667, 1710
"The Mind of Man is his Eye, by which he is to behold God; now if this Eye be blind, if the Light be Darkness, how great is that Darkness!"
preview | full record— Janeway, James (1636?-1674)
Date: 1678
"I did not see him with my bodily eyes, but with the eyes of mine understanding; and thus it was."
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Date: 1692
"Suspence that torture of the Mind, / Long had our Thoughts in doubts dark Cave confin'd"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is a Flux, a Looseness of the Brain, / And Sense-abstract has too much Pride to reign."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Abstracted-Wit 'Tis own'd is a Disease, / But Sense-abstracted has no Power to please."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Sense without Wit is Flegmatick and pale, / And is all Head, forsooth, without a Tail: / Wit without Sense is Cholerick and Red, / Has Tail enough indeed, but has no Head."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, / Will starve the Members, and distract the Head."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive, / Sense is the Vital Heat which Life and Form must give: / Wit is the Teeming Mother brings them forth, / Sense is the Active Father gives them Worth."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)