Date: 1685
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Date: 1685
"No, no, such practises I do detest, / I keep a constant Jury in my breast, / By which I'm hourly try'd, no allegation, / No fain'd excuse, no specious information, / No falshood, no corrupted evidence, / In that impartial Court of Conscience, / Will ever be receiv'd, at any rate, / From this sam...
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)
Date: 1684 [1685]
"Would I could coin my very heart to gold!"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"But the false Image she will ne're erace, / Though far unworthy still to hold its place: / So hard it is, even Wiser grown, to take / Th' Impression out, which Fancy once did make."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686
"Charm her with tender and obliging words, and make her heart like Gold within a Furnace; Melt down before the Language of my Love."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1686
"He finds no Tempest in his Mind, / Fears no Billow, feels no Wind: / All is serene, and quiet there."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"Or coldness, worse than Steel, the Loyal heart doth wound"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686
A " Heav'n-born Mind" may have "no Dross to purge from [its] Rich Ore:"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)