Date: 1681
"O who shall, from this Dungeon, raise / A Soul inslav'd so many wayes?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
All the "lodgings" of the mind may be "Compos'd into one Gallery."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
"In Pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of Disgrace. / A fiery Soul, which working out its way, / Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay; / And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay."
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Date: 1683
"And first, the Presence-Chamber, where does rest, / In fitting state, the Monarch of the breast."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."
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Date: 1683
"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"But for such Guests [Invention, Memory, and Wit] I have no fitting Room; / Or if I had, I've no such Guests to come."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"Then for to please the Ears (those Doors o'th' Mind) / Where could we rarer choice of treatments find?"
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Date: 1684
"In proper Cells her large capacious Brain / The images of all things does contain, / As bright almost as were th'Ideas laid, / In the last model e'er the World was made."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1685
"For, as we see in Princes Pallaces, / How all the avenues, and passages / Are strictly guarded, to oppose the rude / Tumultuous entries of the Multitude: / Whilst civil persons, who have business, / Pass through the Guards, and dayly make address / To th'Princes ear: so all the Guards o'th' brai...
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)