Date: w. 1682, 1702
Chastity may "tincture Humane Hearts with holy Awe, / And deeply there engrave the Royal Law"
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1705
"In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
" In Characters of Malice, Pride, and Fraud, / Stamp'd on his Mind, my Image I applaud."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1705
"The Soul of Man, before it has received any Impression on it, is compar'd to a Rasa Tabula, by Philosophers, that is, It is as it were, a plain capable of any Impression whatever"
preview | full record— Coward, William (b. 1656/7, d. in or before 1725)
Date: 1705, 1709
"Has She a Bodkin and a Card? / She'll prick her Mind."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1707
"There [in a softer mind] shall his sacred spirit dwell, / And deep engrave his law, / And every motion of our souls / To swift obedience draw."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"'O let my Name ingraven stand, / 'Both on thy Heart and on thy Hand."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1708
"'The Characters that Nature has impress'd, / 'Keep their primæval Stamp on ev'ry Breast"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: 1708
"'And he that wou'd, what's printed there, erase, / 'As well might hope to blanch a Negro's Face."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730); Aesop
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)