Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Him there they found / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, / Assaying by his devilish art to reach / The organs of her fancy, and with them forge / Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams."
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Date: 1679
God "can wash off the soil [from the soul], refine the Ore, / And make it shine fairer than heretofore."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
One may be "from all base alloy refin'd, / "More to resemble the Eternal Mind,"
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1679
"It is attracting Love, its nature's such, / 'Tis like the Loadstone; hadst thou once a touch, / 'Twould make thy Iron-heart with speed to move, / Nay, cleave to him in bonds of purest Love."
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Date: 1679
"No Orator on Earth like him could speak, / So powerfully, and sweet enough to break / And melt a breast of Steel, or heart of Stone"
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Date: 1679
"With him [Chirst] I live, his word I hear, yet feel / No yielding to him in this heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1679
"From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down, / And into the Souls mass divinely thrown, / To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd"
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Date: 1681
"Some livelier spark of heaven, and more refined / From earthly dross, fills the great poet's mind."
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
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."
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Date: 1684
"Nor were these Fruits in a rough Soil bestown / As Gemms are thick'st in rugged Quarries sown."
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