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
"Where dost thou dwell? what caverns of the Brain / Can such a vast and mighty thing contain?"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1687
"Our Souls are in one mutual Knot combin'd, / Not Common Passion, Dull and Unrefin'd"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
" But on his Heart the stamp of Death he wore"
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
""All Ætna's Caves strove in his lab'ring Soul, / And Stygian Tempests in his veins did rowl""
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Its Springs divinely touch'd, his lab'ring Brain / Did this Celestial Vision entertain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"A lawless Rout of Passions still engage / In Nature's Cause with hideous Noise and Rage. / Reason is in the Tumult quite supprest, / And still the safest side we think the best."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)