1686

Explore 3 quotes from the year 1686

The old pond-
A frog leaps in,
And a splash.

Matsuo Basho

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Topic

Nature scene

Author

Matsuo Basho

Medium

Haiku Poem

Language

Japanese

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Haiku. c. 1686.

Current Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Basho: The Complete Haiku, translated by Jane Reichhold. Kodansha International, 2013.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems

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Topic

Personal growth Effects of time Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edmund Waller

Source

On the Divine Poems

Language

English

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Waller, Edmund. "On the Foregoing Divine Poems." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857.

Love ceases to be a Pleasure, when it ceases to be a Secret.

Aphra Behn

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Topic

Secret love Love

Author

Aphra Behn

Source

Four o'Clock General Conversation The Lover's Watch

Language

English

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Behn, Aphra. La Montre, or The Lover's Watch. London: W. Canning, 1686.

Current Citation

Behn, Aphra. "La Montre, or The Lover's Watch." The Works of Aphra Behn: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2018.