Date: 1801
"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1801
A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
A lover's heart may be one's throne
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1801
Doubts and fears may "Contend for empire and distract the mind"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
One may fix his empire "o'er the soul of man"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
Subtlety may steal "insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1801
A king may "fix his empire o'er the willing heart"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1802
One must leave improvements of the "vast domain" and "prop the throne of reason e're it falls."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
In England "There, still may sense and reason have a throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1802
"The veriest carl that nature ever made, / Heir to the flail, the wallet, and the spade, / Boasts in fair freedom's isle a free-born mind, / And sighs to share the birth-right of his kind."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)