Date: 1662
The "active soul doth not consume with rust"
preview | full record— Watkyns, Rowland (c. 1614-1664)
Date: 1664
"Their Hearts are as hard, as Iron too, / As tough, but not so cold."
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1681
"In Pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of Disgrace. / A fiery Soul, which working out its way, / Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay; / And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; / So drossy, so divisible are they, / As would but serve pure bodies for allay."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1693
"(Yet what smooth Sycophant by thee can gain? / When Lust it self strikes thy Flint-Heart in vain?)"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1693
"Yet, thy moist Clay is pliant to Command; / Unwrought, and easie to the Potter's hand: / Now take the Mold; now bend thy Mind to feel / The first sharp Motions of the Forming Wheel."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"As softest metals are not slow to melt, / And pity soonest runs in gentle minds:"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)