Date: 1688
"[C]urst Suspitions" may haunt the "tortur'd Mind"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1688
"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
By chance some heart may "thy empire own"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"When Friends advice with Lovers forces joyn, / They'll conquer Hearts more fortify'd than mine"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1688
"I must confess you're wondrous fair, / And know, to conquer such a Heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Each character performs its noble part, / And stamps its Image on the Readers heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Here's Cavities, says one; and here, says he, / Is th' Seat of Fancy, Judgment, Memory: / Here, says another, is the fertile Womb, / From whence the Spirits Animal do come, / Which are mysteriously ingender'd here, / Of Spirits from Arterious Blood and Air: / Here, said a third, Life made her fi...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1663-1689
"Our hearts weak forts we must resign / When beauty does its forces join / With man's strong enemy, good wine."
preview | full record— Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex (1643-1706)
Date: 1689
Fancies can (not) challenge "an abode / Within your Heart to dis-believe a God"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1689
The pen "Conquers Hearts with soft prevailing Force"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)