Date: 1687
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
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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"
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Date: 1688
"I must confess you're wondrous fair, / And know, to conquer such a Heart"
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Date: 1688
"Each character performs its noble part, / And stamps its Image on the Readers heart"
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Date: 1689
The pen "Conquers Hearts with soft prevailing Force"
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Date: 1689
"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue
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Date: 1689
" But on his Heart the stamp of Death he wore"
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