Date: 1661
"Peace brings him in, Olive his Temples binds, / And his great virtues conquer hearts and minds."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"Sh'has o'er my Soul an easie Conquest won."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1687
Cupids in air y forms do move and conspire "conquering ev'ry Heart, or setting it on Fire"
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1687
"At this enrag'd, the injur'd Deity / Chose out the best of his Artillery, / And in a blooming Virgin's Dove-like Eyes / He planted his Victorious Batteries; / (Phillis her Name, the best of Woman-kind, / Could Love have gain'd the Empire of her Mind) / These shot so furiously against my Heart, /...
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1687
"The wing'd Battalions from her lovely face / Flew to the Breach, and, rushing in apace, / Did quickly make her Mistress of the place [the heart]."
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1663-1689
"Our hearts weak forts we must resign / When beauty does its forces join / With man's strong enemy, good wine."
preview | full record— Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex (1643-1706)