Date: 1662
The "active soul doth not consume with rust"
preview | full record— Watkyns, Rowland (c. 1614-1664)
Date: 1664
"Their Hearts are as hard, as Iron too, / As tough, but not so cold."
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1667
"Nor could they trouble us, but that our mind / Hath its own glory unto dross confin'd."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"So Age and Death by slow approches come, / And by that just inevitable doom / By which the Soul (her cloggy dross once gone) / Puts on Perfection, and resumes her own."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
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."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1686
"Or coldness, worse than Steel, the Loyal heart doth wound"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1686
A " Heav'n-born Mind" may have "no Dross to purge from [its] Rich Ore:"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1687
"Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; / So drossy, so divisible are they, / As would but serve pure bodies for allay."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
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)