Date: 1679
The soul "'tis blurr'd, and soil'd by filthy dust / O 'tis defac'd and spoil'd by means of Lust"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"But he who stamp'd [the soul] there at first, can make / It once again a new Impression take."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"Lose not the Soul, (the wax) for nought can bear / This Image then, nor can that loss repair."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"'Tis sure, thy heart hath too too many leaks, / Which sacred things let out, and then let in / Satans suggestions, the world, and sin"
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1680
"So week and feeble I am grown, / Wasted to nothing, ev'ry bone / Disjoynted, from its place doth start, / Like Wax dissolv'd so is my Heart."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
"That, for all furniture, you'l find / Only your Picture in my Mind."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1682
"Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, / Stamp'd Graces on your Body and your mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"From him his Son true Loyalty understood, / Imprest on's Soul, seal'd with his Father's Bloud."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"Where dost thou dwell? what caverns of the Brain / Can such a vast and mighty thing contain?"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: November, 1682
"Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars / To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, / Is reason to the soul; and as on high, / Those rolling fires discover but the sky / Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray / Was lent not to assure our doubtful way, / But guide us upward to a better ...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)