Date: 1693
"From her blest Heart there flows a Line, / Which Nature made, and grapples mine. / Secret as that which tyes the Mind, / When to the Body 'tis confin'd"
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1696
"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1699
"My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale."
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
Date: 1700
"We our selves are Figures of God, being Images of him: And what is an Image but the Figure or Sign of a Thing?"
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Now if the Soul, which is but an Image of God, at an Infinite distance, can communicate it self to several Members, without breach of its Unity; why should it be Impossible for the Eternal and Infinite Mind to communicate it self to several Persons, without breach of its Unity; I will be bold to...
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love"
preview | full record— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)