Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1704, 1715
"A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole, / And fondly stampt into a Soul"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1704, 1715
"His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass. / The daring Mortal surely wore"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706 [1707]
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1706
"There glides the moon her shining way, / And shoots my heart thro' with a silver ray."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"But now I come to cure my fond Disease; / This Steel thy flinty Breast will surely please."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1707, 1710
"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1708
"Besides, he has given an account of those several steps and degrees by which a Man is brought to this perfection; till his Soul is like a polish'd Looking-glass, in which he beholds the Truth: and then he swims in pleasure, and rejoyces exceedingly in his Mind, because of the impressions of Trut...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)