Date: 1696
"I cou'd resolve it soon, / Were this curst Being only in Debate. / But my Imoinda struggles in my Soul."
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Date: 1696
"But 'tis a pleasure more than life can give, / That with unconquer'd Passion to the last, / You struggle still, and fain wou'd hold me to you."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1696
"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."
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Date: 1697, 1700
"Nor think thy force too small, too weak thy Mind / Because to Clay unequally confined; / Its Power is wondrous Great; how small a Mass / Of Gold or Gems, exceeds vast Heaps of Brass?"
preview | full record— Manilius, Marcus (fl. 1st Century AD), Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Date: 1697, 1700
"And from the narrow limits of the Heart, / The Active Soul doth vigorous Life impart / To all the Limbs, its Sway the Members own, / Wide is its Empire from its petty Throne."
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Date: 1697
Wine and Passion may be governable
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
Reason may rule at last (over wine and passion?)
preview | full record— Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
Date: 1697
"The Soul that awful Throne of Thought, That sacred Seat of Contemplation."
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Date: 1697
"When your amazing Jealousy's my Judge, the worst of Villains."
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1697
"My Reason is in Health, and construes nothing ill from a distemper'd Friend."
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