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
"But Settle, and the Rest, that writ for Pence, / Whose whole Estate's an ounce, or two of Brains"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
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
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
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: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
Tho' a World of dull Bullion your essence do's hold, / Scarce an Atom of Soul was cast into the Mould, / Room enough, and to spare lavish Nature allows, / But provides not a Tenant to suit with the House
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1686
"But the false Image she will ne're erace, / Though far unworthy still to hold its place: / So hard it is, even Wiser grown, to take / Th' Impression out, which Fancy once did make."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686
"And so dost think to fill the Abiss below / Quite full of Females, hoping there may be / No room for souls big with Vice as thee."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1686
"By any other hand: She's all divine, / And by a splendid lustre doth outshine / All masculine souls, who only seem to be / Made up of pride and their lov'd luxury."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)