Date: 1697
"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1708
"'The Characters that Nature has impress'd, / 'Keep their primæval Stamp on ev'ry Breast"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: 1708
"'And he that wou'd, what's printed there, erase, / 'As well might hope to blanch a Negro's Face."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop