Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"Your Tongue pursued the Victory of your Eyes, and you did not give me time to rally my poor Disordered Senses, so as to make a tolerable Retreat."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"The Ladies Hearts, particularly the Incognita and Leonora's, beat time to the Horses Hoofs, and hope and fear made a mock Fight within their tender Breasts, each wishing and doubting success where she lik'd."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Date: 1692
"I have, 'tis true, but to no purpose, retir'd to Oxford, to see if Books, and learned men would bring me any Relief, but I find Philosophy is of no power to root out a Passion that is once admitted, whatever it may to defend us from an Invasion."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1692
"With them all sober Reason's Stuff; /But they are now grown Satyr-proof, / And all their Mind's impregnable like warlike Buff."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"Those Senses lost, behold a new defeat; / The Soul, dislodging from another seat."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1693
"But thou, my Dear, hast found the only Art, / At once to Conquer and Enjoy my Heart"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1694
On may achieve a "noble conquest" over his own passions
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1694, 1704
"If we give way to our Passions, we do but gratify our selves for the present, in order to our future disquiet; but if we resist and conquer them, we lay the foundation of perpetual peace and tranquillity in our minds."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630–1694)
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"Others in Time a heart may gain / By Treaty or Perswasion, / Their Conquests They by Siege obtain."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)