Date: 1705
"T' enjoy the World's Conveniencies, / Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, / Without great Vices, is a vain / Eutopia seated in the Brain."
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Date: 1706
"Oh! where shall I begin? what language find / To heal the raging anguish of your mind?"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1706, 1709
"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"But Charms so much divine / Hold a long Empire of the Heart."
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Date: 1706, 1709
"In vain the Harlot Pleasure spreads her Charms / To lull his Thoughts in Luxuries fair Lap / To sensual Ease, (the Bane of little Kings, / Monarchs whose waxen Images of Souls / Are moulded into Softness) still his Mind / Wears its own Shape."
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Date: 1706
"Till hard despair wring from the tyrant's soul / The iron tears out."
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Date: 1706
"The Marble Heart groans with an inward Wound: / Blaspheming Souls of harden'd Steel / Shriek out amaz'd at the new Pangs they feel, / And dread the Eccho's of the Sound."
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Date: 1706
"Affliction is the Fire, wherein their Mind / From Sin, and drossy Mixtures is refin'd."
preview | full record— Baker, Daniel (c. 1654-1723)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
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Date: 1706
"But oh the crowds of wretched [married] souls / Fetter'd to minds of different moulds, / And chain'd t'eternal strife!"
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