Date: 1653
"If flattering Language all the Passions rule, / Then Sense, I feare, will be a meere dull Foole."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1653
"A Poet I am neither borne, nor bred,/ But to a witty Poet married: / Whose Braine is Fresh, and Pleasant, as the Spring, / Where Fancies grow, and where the Muses sing."
preview | full record— Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Date: 1705
"T' enjoy the World's Conveniencies, / Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, / Without great Vices, is a vain / Eutopia seated in the Brain."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)