Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
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Date: 1703
" For, if with Modesty a Woman parts / She gains Contempt, when she wou'd conquer Hearts."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"Kings may our Hands with Iron Fetters bind, / With Chains severer, you secure the Mind."
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
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Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Hostile Desires fierce Wars repeat"
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Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
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Date: 1703, 1718
"Guilt's infernal Gloom, and horrid Night" may "O'erwhelm [Man's] Intellectual Sight"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Darkness, like that in Central Caves beneath, / Like that, which spreads the lonesome Walks of Death, / Where never Ray one Inroad made, / The Rebels Mind did swift invade."
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