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Date: 1611
"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
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Date: 1611
"And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD."
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Date: 1656
"It is impossible, Lady, except you should alter the Fabrick of his mind, unbend its appetite, or give it new desires; for as long as the divine soul creating breath, is clad with different disposing matter, and cast in several moulds, there will be Wise and Fooles."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1679, 1707
"Prosperity's Repasts puff up the Mind / With unsubstantial and unwholesom Wind."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1687, 1691
"I embrace thee, and cordially kiss thee, with the Lips of my Soul, if a man may so express himself."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]
Date: 1692
"That Raillery, Madam, reply'd Eurimantes, does not suit with the posture my Soul is in at present."
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Date: 1693
"Not so, I beseech you, Madam, (answer'd I) rather than lose the Happiness of your Conversation, I'll curb my forward Heart, that is unwilling to let me talk of any thing but its wounds."
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Date: 1693
"In short, Madam, you must be less Fair, or not banish Love from the severe and wise, for as long as you have those killing Eyes, those charming Lips, that graceful Person, all that you can say, will be no better defence, against the Darts they cast, than an Harangue against War, wou'd keep a Sou...
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Date: 1693
"A thousand Tortures perplex'd my Mind, and Love, tho' so lately born, was grown up already, to the heigth of impatience: To ease my mind a little, I set my self to writing, and made these Verses on my departure from Bracilla."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1693
"Each day he came to her to seek a cure for those Wounds she had made in his tender Bosome, and each day he enlarg'd 'em, by beholding the relentless cause of all his sufferings; which were now arriv'd to that heighth, that he was neither able to bear 'em, nor yet knew how to remove them."
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