Date: c. 1680
"The Vitall Spirits apprehend thereby / Exposde to danger great suburbs ly, / The which they do desert, and speedily / The Fort of Life the Heart, they Fortify, / The Heart beats up still by her Pulse to Call / Out of the outworks her train Souldiers all / Which quickly come hence."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 1680
"Here your dear Memory shall be inshrin'd, / And deep impression bear upon our mind."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)
Date: 1680
Bacchus may have "Legal Right" to do Morpheus job and "lock up each mans Brain: / Since every Room / His own Goods did contain, / And was his proper Wine-Cellar become."
preview | full record— Darby, Charles (bap. 1635, d.1709)
Date: 1681
"O who shall, from this Dungeon, raise / A Soul inslav'd so many wayes?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1681
All the "lodgings" of the mind may be "Compos'd into one Gallery."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
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: 1683
"And first, the Presence-Chamber, where does rest, / In fitting state, the Monarch of the breast."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"But for such Guests [Invention, Memory, and Wit] I have no fitting Room; / Or if I had, I've no such Guests to come."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)