Date: 1805
A child may learn from his mother "The empire of the soul"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: w. 1805
"Call we this / But a persuasion taken up by Thee / In friendship; yet the mind is to herself / Witness and judge, and I remember well / That in life's every-day appearances / I seem'd about this period to have sight / Of a new world, a world, too, that was fit / To be transmitted and made visibl...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: October 1807
Pride, wrong, rage, despair, can make may nearly touch the brain, "And reason on her throne would shake"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807
"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1807-8
"Let them approach: / Myriads of slaves like these appal not me, / Who in my people's hearts have built my throne, / Strong as their courage, stedfast as their truth."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1808
Love of native soil is a ruling passion that may intervene in restless scenes
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1809
"Still may she [Fancy] rule the manly mind; / Her sweetest magic still impart / To soften, not subdue, the heart: / Still may she warm the chosen breast, /Not as the sovereign, but the guest."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1810
"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)