Date: 1812
Reason may rule us in her proper place
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1812
"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."
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Date: 1819
The master-passion is not always obeyed
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1819
Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: August 15, 1822
A king may "over three nations .. happily reign, / And establish his throne in their hearts"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: November 1824
"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: w. 1775, 1827
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"
preview | full record— Crowe, William (1745-1829)
Date: 1842
Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: April, 1871
"In cases like the Caliph Omar's, it governs all other desires, absorbs the whole nature, and rules the whole life."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)
Date: April, 1871
"When the inability to prevent the recurrence of the idea is very great, so that the reason is powerless on the mind, the consequent "conviction" is an eager, irritable, and ungovernable passion."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)