Date: 1682
"'Tis not a Flash of Fancy which sometimes / Dasling our Minds, sets off the slightest Rimes; / Bright as a blaze, but in a moment done; / True Wit is everlasting, like the Sun; / Which though sometimes beneath a cloud retir'd, / Breaks out again, and is by all admir'd."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
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: 1682
"Fancy is but the Feather of the Pen; / Reason is that substantial useful part, / Which gains the Head, while t'other wins the Heart."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1682
"A Crowd of Vertues fill your Princely Breast."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1683
" How does Reason rule the Rost. / When Lasciviousness rides Post?"
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1683
"Many a Lye, many a Fable, / Is engrav'd on the Souls Razed Table."
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1683
"You say you love, but I had rather See't, / Shew loves impression in a wounded heart"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1683
"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
preview | full record— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).
Date: 1685
"Victorious Reason" may "afford / A Nobler Conquest then the Sword"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)