Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"But, when arrived at last to human race, / The Godhead took a deep considering space; / And, to distinguish man from all the rest, / Unlocked the sacred treasures of his breast; / And mercy mixt with reason did impart, / One to his head, the other to his heart; / Reason to rule, but mercy to f...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
A monarch may reign "In his Subjects Hearts, as on his Throne"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"Who can describe the Pleasures, which attend A fair kind She, a Bottle, and a Friend? / How they divide the Empire of our Souls, / While each with grateful Tyranny controuls"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1693
"Reason you plead, if you it seems t'acquit, / But if condemn'd, its Vote you won't admit. / But still, if private Reason you pretend / Must be the Judge, Disputes will never end."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1695
"But 'tis not Worldly Empire he design'd, / His Scepter is his Grace, his Throne the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"To pull all bold Usurping Passions down, / And settle Reason in its ancient Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1695
"They did with Wine and Noise the Method find, / To Calm a Conscious, self-revenging Mind. / To lay asleep th' uneasie Judge within, / Till they with Care and Pains, grew bold in Sin."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1697
"Inexorable Hatred, Pride unmixt / Desp'rate Revenge, and Malice deeply fixt, / With Wrath from every Stain of Love refin'd / Reign'd uncontroul'd in his envenom'd Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)