Date: 1685
"One would have thought such melting Words / Should break an Heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1685
A "heaven-born mind" may have "no dross to purge from [its] rich ore"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"Each Note tun'd up the Soul, calcin'd the Mind, / Commenc'd them something more than humane kind; / Their very Bodies into-Souls refin'd."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
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: 1687
The true christian's " Soul [is] by Grace refin'd from drossie Earth, / From sordid Lusts and love of Sin / Made mindful of its own high Birth; / It will not be confin'd within / These narrow bounds of Matter and of Time"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
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)
Date: 1689
If death could be bought off, "Almighty Gold should all controul; / I'd bear his Image in my Soul."
preview | full record— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)
Date: 1691
"Afflictions like as fire doth / The Gold rarely refine, / Purge all our Souls, and we thereby / More gloriously may shine."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Thou like as a Refiner doth / The Gold and Silver try, / We had much dross until thou didst / Our Souls, Lord, purifie."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)