Date: 1687
"Each Note tun'd up the Soul, calcin'd the Mind, / Commenc'd them something more than humane kind; / Their very Bodies into-Souls refin'd."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; / So drossy, so divisible are they, / As would but serve pure bodies for allay."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"What Humane Passion does with Tears implore, / The Intellect Enjoys, when 'tis in Love / With the Eternal Soul, which here does move / In Mortal Closet, where 'tis kept in Store"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"Our Souls are in one mutual Knot combin'd, / Not Common Passion, Dull and Unrefin'd"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"So crowds of anxious Thoughts on ev'ry side, / Invade my Soul."
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"Ah Cynthia! That the blasts of Sighs I vent, / Could ease my Breast of cloudy Discontent, / Which still with fresh Assaults renews my Pain."
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1689
"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)