Date: 1666
Elocution is " that art of clothing and adorning that thought so found and varied, in apt, significant, and sounding word."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1666
"Slow as a Drug, that in the body lies, / Our Phansy works; yours, like a Spirit, flyes"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: 1666
"'Twill much oblige the Nation, for they'l finde / Your Play stampt with the Figure of your Minde;"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: 1667
"For, though Man's Soul, and Body are not onely one natural Engine (as some have thought) of whose motions of all sorts, there may be as certain an accompt given, as those of a Watch or a Clock"
preview | full record— Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713)
Date: 1667
"But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly receiv...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: Jun 12, 1668; 1671
"'Tis so wild [Wildblood's heart], that the Lady who has it in her keeping, would be glad she were well rid on't: it does so flutter about the Cage. 'Tis a meer Bajazet; and if it be not let out the sooner, will beat out the brains against the Grates."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: Jun 12, 1668; 1671
"But is not your heart of the nature of those Birds that breed in one Countrie, and goe to winter in another?"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1660, 1668
"Have you not seen an early-rising Lark / Spring from her Turf, making the Sun her mark, / Shooting her self aloft, yet higher, higher, / Till she had sung her self into Heaven's Quire? / Thus would he rise in Pray'r, and in a trice / His Soul become a Bird of Paradise."
preview | full record— Wild, Robert (1615/16-1679)
Date: 1670
"Thus, like a captive in an isle confined, / Man walks at large, a prisoner of the mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1670
"Having to his great Wit added the ballast of Learning"
preview | full record— Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)