Date: 1682
"Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, / Stamp'd Graces on your Body and your mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"From him his Son true Loyalty understood, / Imprest on's Soul, seal'd with his Father's Bloud."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"This made Impression on some easie Minds, / Whom or good Nature, or false Pity blinds."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1682
"What subtle dart / Had you at first to penetrate my Heart, / Obdure as Steel."
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
Date: 1682
"I fear my breast wants room for the excessive joy; is stuck round with the darts of your Beauty, like an Orange that is stuck with Cloves."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1682
"I freely give it: so is my heart the dearest faithfull Closet of your Merit."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1682
"Love, that like a rich and potent Lord possesses, each close Apartment of this Charming Body, retains thy Vertue for some fitter season, and therefore shuts it up in some dark Closet, till the Riotous Soul has done its Revelling."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1682
"Here Ovid's fancy in this Mirrour shines."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)
Date: 1682
"'Tis not a Flash of Fancy which sometimes / Dasling our Minds, sets off the slightest Rimes; / Bright as a blaze, but in a moment done; / True Wit is everlasting, like the Sun; / Which though sometimes beneath a cloud retir'd, / Breaks out again, and is by all admir'd."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1682
"Where dost thou dwell? what caverns of the Brain / Can such a vast and mighty thing contain?"
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)