Date: 1751, 1791
"Some few there are of sordid mould, / Who barter youth and bloom for gold; / Careless with what, or whom they mate, / Their ruling passion's all for state."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"To Fancy's court we strait apply, / And wait the sentence of her eye."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"The passions are a num'rous crowd, / Imperious, positive, and loud: / Curb these licentious sons of strife; / Hence chiefly rise the storms of life: / If they grow mutinous, and rave, / They are thy masters, thou their slave."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"That Breast, where Honour builds his Throne, / That Breast, which Virtue calls her own."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752
"Can you be free while passions rule you?"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"The wise alone, / Who only bows to reason's throne; / Whom neither want, nor death, nor chains, / Nor subtle persecutor's pains, / Nor honours, wealth, nor lust can move / From virtue and his country's love."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"In vain--The Master-Passion governs still, / And forces you to yield against your Will"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Disguis'd in vain, wake from your foolish Dream, / And own yourself the very Slave you seem; / The Slave of Passion; which perverts Truth's Plan, / And sinks the virtuous in the vicious Man."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Caution'd in vain--Oh! ever Passion's Slave! / You tempt your Fate, and the same Dangers brave."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]