Date: 1679
"As soon as e're the Soul its Eye doth set / Upon his face, or of it takes a view, / They'l cleave to him, whatever doth in sue."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1681
"When will our reason's long-charmed eyes unclose, / And Israel judge between her friends and foes?"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1682
"They compare a Wicked Man's Mind to a Vitiated Stomach; he corrupts whatever he receives, and the best Nourishment turns to the Disease. But, taking this for granted, a Wicked Man may yet be so far Oblig'd, as to pass for Ungrateful, if he does not Requite what be Receives."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"Our Passions are nothing else but certain Disallowable Motions of the Mind; Sudden, and Eager; which, by Frequency, and Neglect, turn to a Disease; as a Distillation brings us first to a Cough, and then to a Phthisick."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1683
"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1684
"The Will its easie Neck to Bondage gave, / And to the ruling Faculty became a Slave."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"In that white Snow which overspreads your skin, / We trace ye whiter Soul which dwells within."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"The writers displayed many geometrical truths before my very eyes, as it were, and derived them by means of logical arguments"
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"We can best learn how mental intuition is to be employed by comparing it with ordinary vision."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Moreover, as we said, we should not contemplate, in one and the same visual or mental gaze, more than two of the innumerable different dimensions which it is possible to depict in the imagination."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)