Date: 1788
"Heav'n heaves the heart, and reason rules the head."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"But if rebellion vex each vital part, / The head made dark by demons in the heart, / The will runs riot, while the passions rule, / The soul a slave, and reason quite a tool"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"The soul [is] a slave, and reason quite a tool."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"When reason governs, as her Maker meant, / Each subject passion feels its proper bent."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"And the mind's poor infirmities dash'd from their throne, / Forgetting the weakness that lives in their own."
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1786, 1787, 1788; 1789
"Like a beggar at law, whom no barrister blesses, / His mind lacks an agent to plead its distresses; / All his muscles rebel 'gainst judicious controul"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
Custom "wars with Wit for Empire o'er the mind / Fights to the last unknowing how to yield, / And inch by inch disputes the mental field"
preview | full record— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)
Date: 1790
"The passions heated, reason strives in vain; / Her empire's lost, and the distracted soul / Becomes the sport of devils, wholly bent / To turn and wind it in a world of sin."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"'Tis God's decree engrav'd upon the heart / To make us wait with patience, till he comes, / Undraws the curtain, and dispels the gloom, / And takes us to his bosom, and rewards / Our constancy and truth."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1790
"Her sickly mind / Was ill at ease, though seated on the throne / of affluence and plenty."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)