Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Mammon led them on-- / Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell / From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts / Were always downward bent."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: c. 1680
"While man unmarr'd abode, his Spirits all / In Vivid hue were active in their hall."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 1681
"For thou alone to people me, / Art grown a num'rous Colony; / And a Collection choicer far / Then or White-hall's, or Mantua's were."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: November, 1682
"They, who the written rule had never known, / Were to themselves both rule and law alone: / To nature's plain indictment they shall plead; / And, by their conscience, be condemn'd or freed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1684
"You wish'd those Thoughts in bloody Ink were shrouded"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"All in thy faithful Glass were so express'd, / As if they were Reflections of thy Breast, / As if they had been stamp'd on thy own mind"
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"Nor were these Fruits in a rough Soil bestown / As Gemms are thick'st in rugged Quarries sown."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1685
"That I have sinn'd, yet sure to none of you / I ever gave offence: my sins at least, / Were acted in the closet of my breast"
preview | full record— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)