Date: 1685
A Partner of a king's sway may be "greater in the Empire of His Heart"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1685
Words entring the narrow Gate of the ear "Through the Ears winding Turnpikes progress make, / And are conducted to the Intellect, / In decent order, have quick audience"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
From "the council of the common Sense" a message "As quick returns: for words are instantly / Dispatch'd in answer"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
One's " own Conscience / Tells him he's guilty, yet pleads innocence. / But what says all this to the case in hand?"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
"No, no, such practises I do detest, / I keep a constant Jury in my breast, / By which I'm hourly try'd, no allegation, / No fain'd excuse, no specious information, / No falshood, no corrupted evidence, / In that impartial Court of Conscience, / Will ever be receiv'd, at any rate, / From this sam...
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1686
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686, 1712
"Here, even my Will's a slave to Passions made, / Passions which have its Liberty betray'd."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"O! that some usual Labour were injoyn'd, / And not the Tyrant Vice enslav'd my mind! / No weight of Chains cou'd grieve my captive Hands, / Like the loath'd Drudg'ry of its base Commands."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1687
"While pride and pomp allure, and plenteous ease, / That is, till man's predominant passions cease, / Admire no longer at my slow increase."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)