Date: 1683
"Those sad reverberating groans that rise / Fro th' Caverns of my bosome, change their noise, / And, Eccho-like, dissolve into a Voice."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1684
"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1684
"My lady knows t' a tittle what there's in ye; / No passing your gilt shilling for a guinea."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1687
"But, when arrived at last to human race, / The Godhead took a deep considering space; / And, to distinguish man from all the rest, / Unlocked the sacred treasures of his breast; / And mercy mixt with reason did impart, / One to his head, the other to his heart; / Reason to rule, but mercy to f...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"Such Beings Philosophick heads relate / Of heavenly stamp"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1687
"Our Souls are in one mutual Knot combin'd, / Not Common Passion, Dull and Unrefin'd"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
" But on his Heart the stamp of Death he wore"
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)