Date: 1685
"Sure there's a lethargy in mighty woe, / Tears stand congealed, and cannot flow; / And the sad soul retires into her inmost room"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1686
"He finds no Tempest in his Mind, / Fears no Billow, feels no Wind: / All is serene, and quiet there."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"London! joynt Favourite with Him Thou wer't; / As both possess'd a room within one heart, / So now with thine indulgent Sovereign joyn, / Respect his great Friends ashes, for He wept o're Thine."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: November 18, 1697
"But when they read the Volumes of his Mind, / (Vast Tomes!) and Search'd the Closets of his Brain, / What endless Sums of Wisdom did they find?"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1702
"Love join'd their Souls, and Heav'n seal'd each Heart"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1702
"We'll think she brings with her Estate a Mind, / Pure as her Sterling, from it's Dross Refin'd."
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: w. 1682, 1702
One finds "true Content in any Lot; / Since in the Closet of his Mind / Dwells Solace not to be defin'd"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1705
"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1715
"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1727
"Ned cou'd not well digest this Change, / Forc'd in the World at large to range; / With Babel's Monarch turn'd to grass, / Wou'd it not break an Heart of Brass?"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)