Explore 573 quotes from the 17th century

La Fontaine, Jean. "Death and the Dying Man." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Bruyère, Jean de La. The Characters of Jean de la Bruyère, translated by Henri van Laun. Routledge, 1929, ch. 4, no. 4.

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

Donne, John. "Holy Sonnet X." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 13.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Studies." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Congreve, William. "The Old Bachelor." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 7.

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

Chapman, George. "All Fools." Elizabethan Comedies: A Basic Anthology. Dover Publications, 2017, act 5, sc. 2.

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970, prologue.

Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11.

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Galilei, Galileo. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." The Essential Galileo. Hackett Publishing, 2008.

Wilmot, John. "A Satire Against Reason and Mankind." Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Shakespeare, William. "King John." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.