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Date: 1691
"How haps, what did unto our Sight advance, / In Dreams again i'th' cheated Soul do dance, / And with fresh Charms the credulous Mind entrance?"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"If Old and New i'th Brain together crowd, / How is it Room and Peace is them allow'd? /How do they and their Equipages come? /For if Material, they must take up room. / And tract of Time would hoard up such a Crop, / The crowded Atoms would the Channels stop, / And choke the Passages of Vision up."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
Speech is the "Delight of Life and Mirrour of the Heart, / By which our Thoughts, which none can see, / We to our own and others Joys impart."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Wisest of Beings! What we do design, / And in dark Caverns of our Breast confine"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"And strangely doth the Vast Abyss contain / Within the Vaster Ocean of his Brain."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Strange frightfull Spectres o're my Mind were spread."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"Oh never doubt me, I'll not break my Word,--and now sweet Angel, my Joys crowd thick about my Heart, and long for vent, the approaching happiness looks so like Heaven that I methinks am extasied already"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1691
"And all the noble Notions in my Soul, / Which crowded with a fondness to prefer thee, / I here dismiss, and in their Room admit / As base thoughts of thee, as thy intended Practice!"
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1691
"Blast not my Entertainment with that thought Madam, my senses are all charmed with such perfection, they'r Crowding which shall be first Gratified."
preview | full record— Mountfort, William (c.1664-1692)
Date: 1691
"By Law and Inclination doubly joyn'd, / Both acted by one Sympathetick Mind. / Whom Wedlock's Silken Chains as softly tye, / As that which when asunder snapt, we dye, / Which makes the Soul and Body's wondrous harmony."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
