Date: 1594
"For men haue marble, women waxen mindes / And therefore are they form'd as marble will, / The weake opprest, th'impression of strange kindes / Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1647
"False Coin with which th'Impostor cheats us still; / The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill!"
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1667
"So are those minds that Gold admire do, / Barren, and haunted by the Devil too."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
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, 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: 1697
"As fire this figure hardens, made of clay, / And this of wax with fire consumes away; / Such let the soul of cruel Daphnis be--"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700); Virgil (70 B.C. - 19 B.C.)
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)
Date: 1697
"Lord, strike this Marble Heart, thy powerful Stroke / Will make a Flood gush from the cleaving Rock. / O draw all Nature's Sluces up, and drain / Her Magazines, which liquid Stores contain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1699
"Love then, that sweet procession of the Mind, / Was from all Dross, and Earthly Dreggs refin'd."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1709
"O stamp upon my Soul / Some blissful Image of the fair Deceas'd / To call my Passions and my Eyes aside / From the dear breathless Clay."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)