Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1732
"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)