Date: 1684
"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1684
"But Settle, and the Rest, that writ for Pence, / Whose whole Estate's an ounce, or two of Brains"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"Truth Stamps Conviction in your Ravisht Breast."
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Date: 1684
"My lady knows t' a tittle what there's in ye; / No passing your gilt shilling for a guinea."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1684
"Those dreadful Horns resemble well / (Since sounding forth their mortal Knell) / Those sharp disdainful Checks that came / From his too coy, severer Dame: / Found terribler, more shrill beside, / Through Fancy's Eccho's multiply'd."
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1685
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
"Sure he, who first the passage tried, / In hardened oak his heart did hide, / And ribs of iron armed his side;"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.)
Date: 1685
"These bugbears of the mind, this inward hell, / No rays of outward sunshine can dispel; / But nature and right reason must display / Their beams abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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)