Date: 1684
"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."
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Date: 1685
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
Words entring the narrow Gate of the ear "Through the Ears winding Turnpikes progress make, / And are conducted to the Intellect, / In decent order, have quick audience"
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Date: 1685
From "the council of the common Sense" a message "As quick returns: for words are instantly / Dispatch'd in answer"
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Date: 1685
"For, as we see in Princes Pallaces, / How all the avenues, and passages / Are strictly guarded, to oppose the rude / Tumultuous entries of the Multitude: / Whilst civil persons, who have business, / Pass through the Guards, and dayly make address / To th'Princes ear: so all the Guards o'th' brai...
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Date: 1685
"For who, but one that's rap't out of his wits, / Whose mind is troubled by invading fits, / Would make so great a noise?"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1685
"[W]hat has all that we have said / Of our good wishes, no impression made / In thy poor Soul?"
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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
Conscience "wounds indeed, / And makes the Heart of hardest Mettal bleed."
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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)