Date: 1679
"With him [Chirst] I live, his word I hear, yet feel / No yielding to him in this heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1679
"From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down, / And into the Souls mass divinely thrown, / To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd"
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1680
Alll "base drossy thoughts, that soil'd the life and lustre of [one's] Judgement may vanish
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1681
"Some livelier spark of heaven, and more refined / From earthly dross, fills the great poet's mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1681
"[S]he bore swiftly round us, and we went after large Top-sails a trip, though one of our hearts of Gold making a shot at her, rak'd her fore and aft."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
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."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1684
"Nor were these Fruits in a rough Soil bestown / As Gemms are thick'st in rugged Quarries sown."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1685
"One would have thought such melting Words / Should break an Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"Look, as iron put into the fire becomes all fiery, so the soul dwelling in the God of dove, becomes all love, all delight, all joy."
preview | full record— Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)
Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)