Date: 1722
"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1722
"Furnish'd with nothing but a faithless Breast, / Where only filthy Lusts and Passions dwell, Like Dirt and Cobwebs in a Hermet's Cell."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1732, 1736
Reason may over-rule fancy
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1752
"Can you be free while passions rule you?"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"The wise alone, / Who only bows to reason's throne; / Whom neither want, nor death, nor chains, / Nor subtle persecutor's pains, / Nor honours, wealth, nor lust can move / From virtue and his country's love."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"In vain--The Master-Passion governs still, / And forces you to yield against your Will"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
Pleasure is "the secret Spring that actuates man"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Date: 1752
"Disguis'd in vain, wake from your foolish Dream, / And own yourself the very Slave you seem; / The Slave of Passion; which perverts Truth's Plan, / And sinks the virtuous in the vicious Man."
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]