Date: 1692
"I tell you, Madam, Love in my Breast is with greater difficulty remov'd, than Foreign Aids out of the distressed Kingdom they are call'd in to assist; Love has subdued me all, and I am entirely a Slave."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1671
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king is"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1683
"Falsely they [sense and rhyme] seem each other to oppose; / Rhyme must be made with Reason's laws to close; / And when to conquer her you bend your force, / The mind will triumph in the noble course."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"To Reason's yoke she quickly will incline, / Which, far from hurting, renders her divine; / But if neglected, will as easily stray, / And master Reason, which she should obey."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: c. 1695-8 [published 1907]
"You o'er my heart were born to reign / And bravely took it by Invasion."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1600
"So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, / Ere I will yield my virgin patent up / Unto his lordship whose unwishèd yoke / My soul consents not to give sovereignty."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1600
"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1600
"How smooth and even they do bear themselves, / As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, / Crownèd with faith and constant loyalty."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)