Date: 1667
"And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"And though 'tis true she [the soul] is imprison'd here, / Yet hath she Notions of her own, / Which Sense doth only jog, awake, and clear, / But cannot at the first make known."
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Date: 1667
"So unconcern'd she lives, so much above / The Rubbish of a sordid Jail, / That nothing doth her Energy improve / So much as when those structures fail."
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"First crept / The parsimonious emmet, provident / Of future; in small room large heart enclosed"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
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...
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell / Of fancy, my internal sight"
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Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675
"True faith within, doth but apply, / Unto the soul, the soveraign remedy; / 'Tis as a door, or like a window bright, / Which to dark souls lets in the precious light"
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Date: 1675
"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."
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