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Date: 1685
The "Amorous fire inkindled in my brest" receives little nourishment "By giving me your hand and denying me the rest"
preview | full record— Anonymous; Corneille (1606-1684)
Date: 1692
"And when ever there occurr'd to his Memory any Action of Asteria's, wherein he was satisfi'd of her Love towards him, he found his thoughts more and more inclining to her; nay so far had he receded from his former Sentiments, that looking on all she had done against him, as so many Marks of a Pa...
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Date: 1693
"Bracilla the Young, and the Charming, that had grown up on the Stage, amidst the perpetual Addresses of her Admirers, and yet seem'd insensible of all the Efforts of Love, as if Heaven had given her Charms to enflame the Heart, without any Compassion to Redress those Miseries her Eyes daily caus...
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1693
"Wine, my Lord the Count here, and I went behind the Scenes. Bracilla happen'd to Act that Night, the Wife of an Vnhappy Favourite, and look'd so Charming in the Expression, of all the Innocence and Passion, her part requir'd, that whilst she well represented Love without any, she fir'd my Heart ...
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Date: 1693
"She has kindled fires in my breast, / Which keep me still awake, / And robs her Lover of that rest, / Which she her self does take."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1693
"Though the oddness of Celadon's adventure did for some time employ the Prince's mind, yet at last, by a long chain of thought, he returned to the accustomed Subject his Mistress: For as the Jack of the Lanthorn is said to lead the benighted Country-man about, and makes him tread many a weary ste...
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1694
The soul is "a spark of the Divine Mind" and "a blast of Almighty Breath"
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
"To which may be added, the Appetite and Desire to Copulation, which fires the Imagination with unusual Fancies."
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1694
"As Fire under Ashes, nor the Sun obscured from our sight by thick Clouds, afford not their full lustre, so the Soul overwhelmed in moist or faulty matter, is darkned, and Reason thereby overclouded"
preview | full record— Aristotle [pseud.]
Date: 1696
"Mine Eyes no sooner saw, but my Heart was in a Flame, it heaves, it beats, it trembles, I'm all over Pulse, and in a perfect Agony."
preview | full record— Anonymous; George Powell (1658-1714), Publisher
