Date: 1687
"[B]ut thanks be prais'd the Generosity of our Cavaliers has open'd their obdurate Hearts with a Golden key, that let's 'em in at all opportunities"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1691
"Why weren't the Royal Regiment sent for Flanders? / With English hearts of Oak, and Horns well steel'd, / To Butt the Puny Monsieur from the Field."
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1693
"As you would Guard my Everlasting Peace, / Remember all those Charms that Seal'd my Heart"
preview | full record— Powell, George (166?-1714)
Date: 1696
The soul may leave "the reins in the wild hand of nature, who like a Phaeton, drives the fiery chariot, and sets the world on flame"
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1696
"For if we look through Reason's never erring Perspective, we then Survey their Souls, and view the Rubbish we were Chaffring for: And such I find, Hillaria's mind is made of."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"How near are men to Brutes, when their unruly Passions break the Bounds of Reason?"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Look you, Sir, my Reason weighs this Injury, which is so light, it will not raise my Anger in the other Scale."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1696
"Can Fancy be a surer Guide to Happiness than Reason?"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"Her Mony may raise many a false pretended Passion, and young Women seldom want a little hardned Vanity to stamp it into Currant Love."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)