Date: 1588
"I laugh not at another's loss, / Nor grudge not at another's gain; / No worldly waves my mind can toss; / I brook that is another's bane."
preview | full record— Dyer, Sir Edward (1543-1607)
Date: 1610
Souls may "by our first touch, take in / The poisonous tincture of original sin"
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1642, 1655, 1668
"O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full."
preview | full record— Denham, John, Sir (1615-1669)
Date: 1666
"O truly royal! who behold the law, / And rule of beings in your Maker's mind; / And thence, like limbecs, rich ideas draw, / To fit the levelled use of humankind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1667
"Our mem'ries like the Cullender that streins / Pure liquor out, but drossie dregs reteins"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Yet all those billows in your breast did meet / A heart so firm, so loyal, and so sweet, / That over them you greater conquest made / Than your Immortal Father ever had."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"The Conscience was ever, and is still / The fountain of all actions, good or ill;"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughout / Vital in every part, not as frail man / In entrails, heart of head, liver or reins, / Cannot but by annihilating die; / Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound / Receive, no more than can the fluid air: / All heart they live, all head, all ...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Thus with ten wounds / The river dragon tamed at length submits / To let his sojourners depart, and oft / Humbles his stubborn heart; but still, as ice / More hardened after thaw."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise / Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise / At least distempered, discontented thoughts, / Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, / Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)