Date: 1700, 1717
"Then let not Piety be put to flight, / To please the tast of Glutton-Appetite; / But suffer inmate Souls secure to dwell, / Lest from their Seats your Parents you expel; / With rabid Hunger feed upon your kind, / Or from a Beast dislodge a Brother's Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1704
"Words drop like Hony from his Lips, his Mind / Is wav'ring and unconstant, as the Wind."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1704
"Mean while Medea, seiz'd with fierce Desire, / By Reason strives to quench the raging Fire; / But strives in vain!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704
"Wretch, from thy Virgin-Breast this Flame expel, / And soon--Oh cou'd I, all wou'd then be well!"
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704
"But Love, resistless Love my Soul invades; / Discretion this, Affection that perswades."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)
Date: 1704, 1715
"A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole, / And fondly stampt into a Soul"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1704, 1715
"His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass. / The daring Mortal surely wore"
preview | full record— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1706 [1707]
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)