Date: 1686
"Oh what a Tempest have I in my Stomach?"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686
"My Guts are grumbling a kind of Tune, Like the Base Pipes of an Organ: I am starv'd into a Substance so thin, that my Body is transparent; you may see my heart, and the appurtenances, hang up here in its mortal Closet, as easily as a Candle in a Lanthorn."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686
"I am starv'd into a Substance so thin, that my Body is transparent; you may see my heart, and the appurtenances, hang up here in its mortal Closet, as easily as a Candle in a Lanthorn."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1690
"Here satiate all your fury; / Let fortune empty her whole Quiver on me, / I have a Soul, that like an ample Shield / Can take in all; and verge enough for more."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1690
"Impossible! / Souls know no Conquerors."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1690
"Our Sex, you know, was after yours design'd; / The last Perfection of the Makers mind: / Heav'n drew out all the Gold for us, and left your Dross behind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); [Plautus, Molière]
Date: 1690
"O there's the Rock, on which my Reason splits: / Wou'd that were all!"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); [Plautus, Molière]
Date: 1690
"Here satiate all your fury; / Let fortune empty her whole Quiver on me, / I have a Soul, that like an ample Shield / Can take in all; and verge enough for more."
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Date: 1691
"The Flame which Reason rules has Interest in't"
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)