Date: 1663-1689
"Our hearts weak forts we must resign / When beauty does its forces join / With man's strong enemy, good wine."
preview | full record— Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex (1643-1706)
Date: 1698
"Your Bulwarks, Entrenchments and Redoubts lay so cunningly hid in your Way of Ideas, that they were altogether Invisible; so that the most quick-sighted Engineer living could not discern them, or take any sure Aim at them: Much less such a Dull Eye as mine; who, tho' I bend my Sight as strongly ...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)