Date: 1667
"From Sons has made you Lords of th' Earth, / And on yours stampt the Portrait of His minde."
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1681
"That, for all furniture, you'l find / Only your Picture in my Mind."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
"For thou alone to people me, / Art grown a num'rous Colony; / And a Collection choicer far / Then or White-hall's, or Mantua's were."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1687
"Yet sure we think 'em sensless stories, / The pageantry of some distempered Head, / Which fancies Pencil did delineate, / The broken visions of the living when they dream'd 'oth' dead."
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1691
"How haps it then, Ideas stay behind, / And, when We please, can paint anew the Mind, / When what created them is fled, like Wind?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1692
"Fancies and Notions he pursues, / Which ne'er had Being but in Thought: / Each, like the Grecian Artist, woo's / The Image He himself has wrought."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1693
"So Fancy paints, so does the Poet write, / When he wou'd work a Tempest to the height."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1700
"Unfinish'd Notions in the Mind he sees, / And the rude Lines of half-drawn Images."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)