Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"Her Eyes diffus'd Rays comfortable as warmth, and piercing as the light; they would have worked a passage through the straightest Pores, and with a delicious heat, have play'd about the most obdurate frozen Heart, untill 'twere melted down to Love."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1992
"His thoughts shimmered like a hesitating stream, gathering into pools of discrete and vivid imagery."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)