Date: w. c. 1779

"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1781

"Insulted Reason fled the grov'ling soul, / For Fear to guide, and visions to control: / But now, when Reason has assumed her throne, / She, in her turn, demands to reign alone"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1781

Reason may reject "all that lies beyond her view / And being judge, will be a witness too"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1783, 1838

"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1783, 1838

If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1783, 1838

"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1785, 1838

Love of news may be a master-passion

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: October 1807

Pride, wrong, rage, despair, can make may nearly touch the brain, "And reason on her throne would shake"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1807

"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1810

"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)