Date: 1681
"Thus when Adonis got the stone, / To Love the Boy still made his moan; / Venus the Queen of Fancy came, / And as he slept she cool'd his flame."
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Date: 1681
"O who shall me deliver whole, / From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
"When will our reason's long-charmed eyes unclose, / And Israel judge between her friends and foes?"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1681
"Men, manners, language, books of noblest kind" may be the the conquest of the mind
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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: 1681
"And all to leave, what with his Toyl he won, / To that unfeather'd, two legg'd thing, a Son: / Got, while his Soul did hudled Notions try; / And born a shapeless Lump, like Anarchy."
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Date: 1682
"Sh'has o'er my Soul an easie Conquest won."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, / Stamp'd Graces on your Body and your mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"From him his Son true Loyalty understood, / Imprest on's Soul, seal'd with his Father's Bloud."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"This made Impression on some easie Minds, / Whom or good Nature, or false Pity blinds."
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