Date: 1686
"Nor does its [sickness's] Malice in these bounds restrain, / But shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit, the Brain, / And with a ne're enough detested Force / Reason disturbs, and turns out of its Course."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1688
"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
By chance some heart may "thy empire own"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"When Friends advice with Lovers forces joyn, / They'll conquer Hearts more fortify'd than mine"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1688
"I must confess you're wondrous fair, / And know, to conquer such a Heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Each character performs its noble part, / And stamps its Image on the Readers heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Here's Cavities, says one; and here, says he, / Is th' Seat of Fancy, Judgment, Memory: / Here, says another, is the fertile Womb, / From whence the Spirits Animal do come, / Which are mysteriously ingender'd here, / Of Spirits from Arterious Blood and Air: / Here, said a third, Life made her fi...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1689
The pen "Conquers Hearts with soft prevailing Force"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1701
"Search all the close recesses of the mind, / And leave no vice, no ruling passion there, / Nothing to raise a blush, or cause a fear; / Their memories with solid notions fill, / And let their reason dictate to their will."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1702
"True Friends ... have their Names engraven / In one anothers Hearts, which cannot be / Cancell'd or Raz'd by Earths vain obloquy"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)