Date: 1702
Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason rules with a "God-like, and a Peaceful Hand"
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Date: 1702
While Reason governs "all within's at Rest; / No Stormy Passion Revels in the Breast"
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Date: 1702
When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."
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Date: 1702
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
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Date: 1702
"The Vices common to her Sex, can find / No room, e'en in the Suburbs of her Mind."
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Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"Thy Paradise, thro' whose fair Hills of Joy / Those Springs of everlasting Vigor range, / Which make Souls drunk with Heav'n, which cleanse away / All Earth from Dust, and Flesh to Spirit change."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1702 [but see also earlier editions 1648, 1651]
"My Soul untun'd, unstrung, doth wait on Thee / To teach her how to sing thy MYSTERY."
preview | full record— Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
Date: 1703
"But Beauty, bewitching Beauty, has Power at any time to unlock the Closet of my Breast; your Charms are irresistibly engaging"
preview | full record— Centlivre, Susanna (c.1670-1723); Moliére (1622-1673)
Date: 1710
"My design is to speak of no other kind of LOVE but that which Beauty begets in the Appetite, and of those various Storms and Emotions it raiseth both in the Soul and Body."
preview | full record— Tipper, John (1663–1713)