Date: 1677
"I have a Mint in my Brain, and I'l coin so much for you both presently."
preview | full record— Ravenscroft, Edward (c.1650- c.1700)
Date: 1677
"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1677
"I wou'd ha' rent / With my just hands that Rock, that Marble heart; / I wou'd have div'd through Seas of bloud to find it, / To tear the cruel Quarry from its Center."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1677
"And mine / The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates / Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour / That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object / Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, / Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, / Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory / With a...
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1678
"No more; I'm thine, and here I seal my heart to thee for ever."
preview | full record— Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)
Date: 1678
"[Y]et even such a soul, may like a Diamond that's set too narrow in the finest Gold, straiten its lustre."
preview | full record— Howard, Edward (bap. 1624, d. 1712)
Date: 1678
"Into his studious Closet to stuff his Lunatick head, since he can get nothing for his belly."
preview | full record— Porter, Thomas (1636-1680)
Date: 1678
"Madam, till this moment I ne're was happy, but in your Company lies such Crowds of Joyes, that my soul's too narrow to receive 'em."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1678
"And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1678
"But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / [the soul] Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)