Date: 1730
"No light the darkness of that mind invades, / Where Chaos rules, enshrin'd in genuine Shades;"
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1731
"It must needs follow from hence, that Knowledge is an Inward and Active Energy of the Mind it self, and the displaying of its own Innate Vigour from within, whereby it doth Conquer, Master and Command its Objects, and so begets a Clear, Serene, Victorious, and Satisfactory Sense within it self."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1731, 1753
"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731, 1753
"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"My Soul is torn with a vain War of Passions."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1732
"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1733
"Let Vice and guilt act how they please / In souls their conquer'd provinces;"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733
"Virtue's exempt from quartering fears. / Shall then arm'd phancies fiercely drest / Live at discretion in your breast?"
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]
Date: 1733, 1736
"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1734
Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)