Date: 1656
"It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1664
"The fancy, memory, and judgment are then extended (like so many limbs) upon the rack; all of them reaching with their utmost stress at nature; a thing so almost infinite and boundless, as can never fully be comprehended, but where the images of all things are always present."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1666
"Slow as a Drug, that in the body lies, / Our Phansy works; yours, like a Spirit, flyes"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: 1671
"Ay, on my Conscience and Soul the Palat of his Judgement is down; and by the way how do'st like that Metaphor or rather Catachresis?"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1672
"[A]ll these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people."
preview | full record— Villiers, George, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687)
Date: 1673, 1684
"Th' illiterate Writer, Emperique like, applies / To minds diseas'd, unsafe, chance Remedies."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1676
"Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1678
"Into his studious Closet to stuff his Lunatick head, since he can get nothing for his belly."
preview | full record— Porter, Thomas (1636-1680)
Date: 1696
"Then let Cupid 's dart, / Now wound your soft heart."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
Date: 1696
"Love's a Fever of the Mind, which nothing but our own wishes can asswage, and I don't Question but we shall find Marriage a very cooling Cordial."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)