Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[H]orrour and doubt distract / His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir / The Hell within him; for within him Hell / He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell / One step, no more than from himself, can fly / By change of place."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)
Date: 1675
"Thou say'st, the spirit is a silent voyce, / VVhence is it then thou mak'st so great a noyse?"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
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: 1679, 1707
"Her [Prosperity's] fatal Poison to the Mind she sends; / And uncorrect, in sure Destruction ends."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1679, 1707
"Great Minds (like the victorious Palms) are wont / Under the Weights of Fortune more to mount."
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Date: 1679, 1707
"A Bliss that springs from penitential Joy, / Is the Mind's Balsam in each sharp Annoy; / Fools only their own Comforts do destroy."
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