Date: 1674
"What then can remain to cause this dire war daily observed within us, betwixt the allurements of our Sense, on one side, and the grave dictates of our Mind, on the other; but two distinct Agents, the Rational Soul and the Sensitive, coexistent within us, and hotly contending about the conduct of...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1674
"To this Objection therefore I answer (1.) that had this excellent Man, Monsieur des Cartes been but half as conversant in Anatomy, as he seems to have been in Geometry, doubtles he would never have lodged so noble a guest as the Rational Soul, in so incommodious a closet of the brain, as the Gla...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1675
"Please to consult the Steward of your Soul, / And Ruler of your Senses, Your wise Reason."
preview | full record— Anonymous; Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1675
"Those things are mean, are forc'd to court the Eyes, The Porters of the Soul, to give 'em entrance."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Date: 1675
"Sir, you will find Ingratitude a stranger to my thoughts."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Date: 1676
"May all the passions that are raised by neglected love--jealousy, indignation, spite, and thirst of revenge--eternally rage in her soul, as they do now in mine."
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1676
"But she has left a pleasing image of herself that wanders in my soul. It must not settle there."
preview | full record— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)
Date: 1677
"--Hah--Celinda--in my crowd of thoughts / I had forgot I sent"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1677
"Come, thou heart-reviving Gleam, / Thou, of Comforters the best, / Thou, the Souls delightful Guest, / A refreshing sweet relief."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1678
"Madam, till this moment I ne're was happy, but in your Company lies such Crowds of Joyes, that my soul's too narrow to receive 'em."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)