Date: 1712, 1719
"God of the Grape, I'll wisely use / Thy heav'nly Gifts, nor will disclose / Thy sacred Rites; do thou asswage / My burning Soul, and curb thy Rage: / Lest to new hateful Crimes I run: / Lest Vanity seize Reason's Throne, / And wretched I to open Day / The Secrets of the Night betray, / And my He...
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Date: 1712
"Fancy governs the Blood--and when the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite-- the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies."
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
"[W]hen the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
Appetite is "the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712
" But as the Passions of the Human Mind / Must strictly be to Nature's Laws confin'd,"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Date: 1712, 1728
"No Party Heats his Just Designs Controul, / Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul, / Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws, / To give a random Vote against the Laws."
preview | full record— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Date: 1712
"When threat'ning Tides of Rage and Anger rise, / Usurp the Throne, and Reason's Sway despise, / When in the Seats of Life this Tempest reigns, / Beats thro' the Heart, and drives along the Veins, / See, Eloquence with Force perswasive binds / The restless Waves, and charms the warring Winds: Res...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"From thence a nobler Flight she did essay, / The Mind's extended Empire to survey."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
"When she to foreign Objects Audience gives, / Their Strokes and Motions in the Brain perceives, / As these Perceptions we Ideas name, / From her own Pow'r and active Nature came, / So when discern'd by Intellectual Light, / Her self her various Passions does excite, / To Ill her Hate, to Good he...
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Date: 1712
"These Out-guards of the Mind are sent abroad, / And still patrolling beat the neighb'ring Road: / Or to the Parts remote obedient fly, / Keep Posts advanc'd, and on the Frontier lye."
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