Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
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Date: 1696
"But hold Leander, let no Seas nor Wind / Disturb the quiet Freehold of thy Mind."
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Date: 1697
"As fire this figure hardens, made of clay, / And this of wax with fire consumes away; / Such let the soul of cruel Daphnis be--"
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Date: 1697
""All Ætna's Caves strove in his lab'ring Soul, / And Stygian Tempests in his veins did rowl""
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Date: 1697
"Its Springs divinely touch'd, his lab'ring Brain / Did this Celestial Vision entertain."
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Date: 1697
"A lawless Rout of Passions still engage / In Nature's Cause with hideous Noise and Rage. / Reason is in the Tumult quite supprest, / And still the safest side we think the best."
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Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
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Date: 1697
"Lord, strike this Marble Heart, thy powerful Stroke / Will make a Flood gush from the cleaving Rock. / O draw all Nature's Sluces up, and drain / Her Magazines, which liquid Stores contain."
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Date: 1697
"Prodigious was the Compass of his Mind, / Wide as his Love, which took in Humane Kind. / He Albion's Good, not Fame or Riches fought, / Generous, and open-hearted to a fault. / An unexhausted Magazin his Brain / Did all the Treasures of the Schools contain."
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Date: 1697
"Thro' Helm and Skull the Fauchion passage found, / Cleft thro' the Brain, and ruin'd with the Wound / The curious Imag'ry by Fancy wrought, / All Mem'ry's Cells, and all the Moulds of Thought."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)