Date: 1686
"Grief, Sorrow, each unwelcom Guest, / Take Lodgings in his anxious Breast:"
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1687
"So crowds of anxious Thoughts on ev'ry side, / Invade my Soul."
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"His loveliness my Soul hath prepossest, / And left no room for any other guest:"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1687
"The wing'd Battalions from her lovely face / Flew to the Breach, and, rushing in apace, / Did quickly make her Mistress of the place [the heart]."
preview | full record— Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (1660/1-1707)
Date: 1689
"For Vertue in a Woman's Breast / Seldom by Title is possest, / And is no Tenant, but a wand'ring Guest."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1691
"Be deaf to Flattery; it deludes the Mind, / And oft, when all Arts fail, doth entrance find. / But then's most Danger, we should to 't resign. / When't meets with that Arch-Flatterer within."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"If Old and New i'th Brain together crowd, / How is it Room and Peace is them allow'd? /How do they and their Equipages come? /For if Material, they must take up room. / And tract of Time would hoard up such a Crop, / The crowded Atoms would the Channels stop, / And choke the Passages of Vision up."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Strange frightfull Spectres o're my Mind were spread."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"No pining Thoughts do sowre the Joys, they tast, / No preying Passion doth their Body wast; / While Ours by the Souls Motion's worn so thin; / 'Twill scarce keep Life, and Breath, Life's Tenant, in."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Our Knowledge by the Sence's help we find, / 'Tis those deceitfull Guides inform our Mind."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)