Your search for
Genre:
"Poetry"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
,
"Uncategorized"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Whig"
returned 3 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1695
"I their rude, inbred Cruelty refin'd, / And stampt my perfect Image on their Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"At such Reflections do's not Nature start, / And try at every Spring to touch your Heart? / Do's not soft Pity's fire begin to burn, / Do not your yearning Bowels in you turn? / In such a case Breasts arm'd with temper'd Steel / And Hearts of Marble, should impression feel."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)