Date: 1682
"Our Passions are nothing else but certain Disallowable Motions of the Mind; Sudden, and Eager; which, by Frequency, and Neglect, turn to a Disease; as a Distillation brings us first to a Cough, and then to a Phthisick."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1683
"Pythagoras saw Hesiod's Soul ty'd / To Brass-Pillars, wept and cry'd;"
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Date: 1686
"Our souls are all disrob'd, all naked laid, / In thy true Mirror men themselves do see"
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1687
Man's mind like his "outward form" charmed the eyes of the "wondering herd"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1688
"But Love, who had hitherto but play'd with her Heart, and given it naught but pleasing, wanton Wounds, such as afforded only soft Joys, and not Pains, resolv'd, either out of Revenge to those Numbers she had abandon'd, and who had sigh'd so long in vain; or to try what power he had upon so fickl...
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1689
"Ah, Sister! (reply'd the dejected Henault) your Counsel comes too late, and your Reasons are of too feeble force, to rebate those Arrows, the Charming Isabella's Eyes have fix'd in my Heart and Soul"
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Date: 1689
The passion ambition "'Tis the minds Wolf, a strange Disease, / That ev'n Saciety can't appease"
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1693
"I grant this true: But, still, the deadly wound / Is in thy Soul: 'Tis there thou art not sound."
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Date: 1693
"Knock on my Heart; for thou hast skill to find / If it sound solid, or be fill'd with Wind; / And, thro the veil of words, thou view'st the naked Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"Her Night-gown hanging loose, discover’d her charming Bosom, which cou’d bear no Name, but Transport, Wonder and Extasy, all which struck his Soul, as soon as the Object hit his Eye; her Breasts with an easy Heaving, show’d the Smoothness of her Soul and of her Skin; their Motions were so langui...
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)