Date: 1693
"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"Who can describe the Pleasures, which attend A fair kind She, a Bottle, and a Friend? / How they divide the Empire of our Souls, / While each with grateful Tyranny controuls"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"Reason you plead, if you it seems t'acquit, / But if condemn'd, its Vote you won't admit. / But still, if private Reason you pretend / Must be the Judge, Disputes will never end."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1693
"But if thy Passions lord it in thy Breast, / Art thou not still a Slave, and still opprest."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1695
"But 'tis not Worldly Empire he design'd, / His Scepter is his Grace, his Throne the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"To pull all bold Usurping Passions down, / And settle Reason in its ancient Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"They did with Wine and Noise the Method find, / To Calm a Conscious, self-revenging Mind. / To lay asleep th' uneasie Judge within, / Till they with Care and Pains, grew bold in Sin."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Inexorable Hatred, Pride unmixt / Desp'rate Revenge, and Malice deeply fixt, / With Wrath from every Stain of Love refin'd / Reign'd uncontroul'd in his envenom'd Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"It reach'd the inmost Marrow of the Brain / Where we perceive our Pleasures, and our Pain. / There where the Soul upon her Throne abides, / And from our Sight conceal'd her Empire guides: / Do's various Orders various Tasks dispence, / To all th'inferiour Ministers of Sence."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)