Date: 1792
"For oft, their due degrees / Abandon'd, one essential ev'n excludes / The rest; or argument, perhaps, usurps / The throne of pathos; or the passions, free / From previous forms, as great emergence calls, / Burst on a CATILINE's devoted head / Impetuous."
preview | full record— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
Date: 1792
"Around [Religion's] emerald throne / The passions tremble at her awful beck-- ' Her ministers as flaming fire,' to waft / Into the mortal bosom the pure spark / Æthereal, that refines our thought"
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Date: 1794
"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1801
A lover's heart may be one's throne
preview | full record— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)
Date: 1804
"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."
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Date: 1804
The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"
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Date: 1804
"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"
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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: 1810
"Fear was his ruling passion; yet was Love, / Of timid kind, once known his heart to move."
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