Date: 1665
Minds are "like smooth paper never writ upon, / When folded up, by some impression / Marks will remain it never had before, / And ne're return to former smoothness more."
preview | full record— Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698)
Date: 1677
"I wou'd ha' rent / With my just hands that Rock, that Marble heart; / I wou'd have div'd through Seas of bloud to find it, / To tear the cruel Quarry from its Center."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1694
On may achieve a "noble conquest" over his own passions
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1694
"Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the Obedient Iron--should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours--."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1694
"Thy mighty Soul, stamp'd of Heav'n's noblest Coin, / More Pure than Gold, more Precious and Divine, / Does in thy Everlasting Vertues shine."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1705
"An Excellent Artist is not like the Phænix, for he does Justice to the Merits of others; for Judgment governs our Thoughts and Ideas, and makes us know our selves to be what we are."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"All the World knows it is an Heroick Action not to be transported by our Passions; and tho' they may chance to assault our Wills, yet that Judgment that governs 'em will make us relish our Reasons"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"'Tis a Fault which Authors of Romances commit in every Page; they would Blind the Reader with this Miracle, but 'tis necessary the Miracle shou'd be feisable, to make an Impression in the Brain of Reasonable Persons."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1705
"For though she might be prevail'd with to sacrifice one to the Service of the other, yet she would never part with the last, without it was to gratifie that Noble Passion of Revenge, which is the darling Vice of her Sex, and was not a Stranger to Zarah's Breast."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)