Date: 1697
"As when you make Cogitation in us to be like Motion in Matter, which receives its Motion from external Impression"
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
Date: 1697
"Upon your Supposition That all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, and all Cogitation is extinct, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning."
preview | full record— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)
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)
Date: 1697
"[T[hou shalt see me mould his heart in the palm of my Hand like soft Wax, till I make it bear what impression I please"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1697
""All Ætna's Caves strove in his lab'ring Soul, / And Stygian Tempests in his veins did rowl""
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Its Springs divinely touch'd, his lab'ring Brain / Did this Celestial Vision entertain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"A lawless Rout of Passions still engage / In Nature's Cause with hideous Noise and Rage. / Reason is in the Tumult quite supprest, / And still the safest side we think the best."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Lord, strike this Marble Heart, thy powerful Stroke / Will make a Flood gush from the cleaving Rock. / O draw all Nature's Sluces up, and drain / Her Magazines, which liquid Stores contain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Prodigious was the Compass of his Mind, / Wide as his Love, which took in Humane Kind. / He Albion's Good, not Fame or Riches fought, / Generous, and open-hearted to a fault. / An unexhausted Magazin his Brain / Did all the Treasures of the Schools contain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)