Date: 1685

"Victorious Reason" may "afford / A Nobler Conquest then the Sword"

— Philips, John (1676-1709)

Date: 1685

One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

Date: 1685

A Partner of a king's sway may be "greater in the Empire of His Heart"

— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)

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"

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

Date: 1685

From "the council of the common Sense" a message "As quick returns: for words are instantly / Dispatch'd in answer"

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

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...

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

Date: 1685

The "Amorous fire inkindled in my brest" receives little nourishment "By giving me your hand and denying me the rest"

— Anonymous; Corneille (1606-1684)

Date: 1685

The Lord may "bear my Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

Date: 1685

One may bear God's "Image and Inscription" upon his heart

— Mason, John (1646?-1694)

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)