Date: 1653
"If flattering Language all the Passions rule, / Then Sense, I feare, will be a meere dull Foole."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"A Poet I am neither borne, nor bred,/ But to a witty Poet married: / Whose Braine is Fresh, and Pleasant, as the Spring, / Where Fancies grow, and where the Muses sing."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1667
"But yet my self I may subdue; / And that's the nobler Empire of the two"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
" (Your Mind b'ing more transcendent than your State, / For while but Knees to this, Hearts bow to that,)"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1677
"Love does all day the Soules great Empire keep, / But Wine at night Lulls the soft God asleep."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1687
A woman may sway the Empire of one's soul
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
By chance some heart may "thy empire own"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1703
In Ovid "Methinks, I see those Passions well exprest, / Which play the Tyrant in the Mortal Breast"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1713
"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"
preview | full record— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)