Date: 1673
"[Y]our whole frame [is] as innocent, and holy, as if your being were all soul and spirit, without the gross allay of flesh and bloud"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1675
"Our Poet hope's you'll not expect to day, / T'have all his down-right thoughts drest up so gay, / If his Coyn chinks too much, you'll doubt allay."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Date: 1675
"Work, work, my hearts of Gold."
preview | full record— Duffett, Thomas (fl. 1674-1678); William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Date: 1677
"I wou'd ha' rent / With my just hands that Rock, that Marble heart; / I wou'd have div'd through Seas of bloud to find it, / To tear the cruel Quarry from its Center."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1678
"[Y]et even such a soul, may like a Diamond that's set too narrow in the finest Gold, straiten its lustre."
preview | full record— Howard, Edward (bap. 1624, d. 1712)
Date: 1680
Alll "base drossy thoughts, that soil'd the life and lustre of [one's] Judgement may vanish
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1680
"I said you were all Mettle; A brazen face, a leaden brain, and a copper nose and beard."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1681
"[S]he bore swiftly round us, and we went after large Top-sails a trip, though one of our hearts of Gold making a shot at her, rak'd her fore and aft."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1681
"[A] Woman has a sweet time on't with any Soldier Lover of 'em all, with their Iron minds and Buff hearts"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1686
"Charm her with tender and obliging words, and make her heart like Gold within a Furnace; Melt down before the Language of my Love."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)