Date: 1770, 1806
"Nor pride nor fickleness could claim / The empire of his mind."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875
"The groves of Kew, however misapplied / To serve the purposes of lust and pride, / Were, by the greater monarch's care, designed / A place of conversation for the mind; / Where solitude and silence should remain, / And conscience keep her sessions and arraign."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1770
Powerful charms may extend "their empire over the heart"
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1770
"Reason and Nature are the judges here."
preview | full record— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)
Date: 1771
"But, Sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and to virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1771
"I conjure you--however severe the conflict, gratitude shall ever be the predominant passion of my soul--oh! fly this instant."
preview | full record— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Date: 1772
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1772
"Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1764, 1773
"Such is my theme, which means to prove, / That tho' we drink, or game, or love, / As that or this is most in fashion, / Precedence is our ruling passion."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1773
"There may I worship, and there may'st Thou place / Thy Seat of Mercy and Thy Throne of Grace; / Yea, fix, if Christ my Advocate appear, / The dread Tribunal of Thy Justice there!"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)