Date: 1685
Tho' a World of dull Bullion your essence do's hold, / Scarce an Atom of Soul was cast into the Mould, / Room enough, and to spare lavish Nature allows, / But provides not a Tenant to suit with the House
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1685
"No, no, my friends, I utterly detest / The very thoughts of sin; nor, in the least / Will I allow my heart to entertain / Such guests as those, of which you do complain."
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1686
"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"So much of joy crowds fast into my heart, / There is not room for utterance"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686
"In the Recesses of a private Breast, / I thought to entertain your charming Guest, / And never to have boasted of my Feast."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"Grief, Sorrow, each unwelcom Guest, / Take Lodgings in his anxious Breast:"
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1686, 1689, 1697
"As soon as ever the Parts begin to be form'd by Nature, this Animal and active Principle begins to exert its Heat and Force, being lodged in the Heart as in the Centre of the Body, from whence, as the Vessels begin also to be form'd, it distributes it self towards the extreme Regions, communicat...
preview | full record— Nourse, Timothy (c.1636–1699)
Date: 1687
"So crowds of anxious Thoughts on ev'ry side, / Invade my Soul."
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"His loveliness my Soul hath prepossest, / And left no room for any other guest:"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1687, 1691
"And though it may seem difficult to be a Saint, in passing ones days in a Prophane Place, yet think not my Piety grows luke-warm, or my Friendship diminished; seeing I have made a Mosque of my Heart, where Friends are ever present."
preview | full record— Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693); Anonymous [William Bradshaw (fl. 1700) or Robert Midgley (1655?-1723)?]