Date: 1692
"At Distance thro' an artful Glass / To the Mind's Eye Things well appear."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1692
"Fancies and Notions he pursues, / Which ne'er had Being but in Thought: / Each, like the Grecian Artist, woo's / The Image He himself has wrought."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1692
"We Truth by a Refracted ray / View, like the Sun at Ebb of day: / Whom the gross, treacherous Atmosphere / Makes where it is not, to appear."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
With "sweat and pain" the philosopher may "Digg Mines of disputable Oar."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"Or grant some Knowledge dwells below, / 'Tis but for some few years to stay / Till I'm set loose from this dark House of Clay, / And in an Instant I shall all things know."
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Date: 1692
A "soft Enchantress of the mind" may have to resign the empire of her lover's heart
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"A Nobler, A Diviner Guest" may take possession of the Breast
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"For these rude Pangs of Jealousie, are much more certain signs / Of Love, than all the tender Words an amorous Fancy coins."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1692
"But when dilated organs let in day / To the young soul, and gave it room to play, / At his first aptness, the maternal love / Those rudiments of reason did improve."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1692
"Gold first their Blindfold Reason led astray"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)