Date: 1675
"Our Poet hope's you'll not expect to day, / T'have all his down-right thoughts drest up so gay, / If his Coyn chinks too much, you'll doubt allay."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
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: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1696
"But there's no fault in her 1000 l. a year, and that's the Loadstone that attracts my heart--The Wise, and Grave, may tell us of strange Chimæra's call'd Virtues in a Woman, and that they alone are the best Dowry; but faith we younger Brothers are of another mind."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1706, 1709
"O 'tis a Thought would melt a Rock, / And make a Heart of Iron move."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706, 1709
"COME let me Love: or is my Mind / Harden'd to Stone, or froze to Ice?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1720
"Ah vile Heart, more obdurate and harder than Adamant! upon this cruel Anvil was forged the Chains that bound up my unlucky Destiny!"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1723, 1740
"And if their Heads but any Substance hold, / Love ripens all that Dross into the purest Gold."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1728
"Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? / Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)