Date: 1773
Injur'd Reason may "her lost rights again / Resume, and of the passions take the rein"
preview | full record— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)
Date: 1767, 1778
"Envy in courts and cottages will dwell, / Nay climb to heaven itself, tho' born in hell: / In every living bosom lurks this pest, / But reigns unrival'd in the human breast; / On reason's throne usurps a thorny part, / And plants a thousand daggers in the heart."
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1785
"I was surpriz'd, taken unawares, passion ran away with me like an unbroke horse: but I have got him under now; I can govern him with a twine of thread."
preview | full record— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Date: 1789, 1800
"On his one ruling passion Sir Pope hugely labors, / That, like th'old Hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours."
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Date: 1790
'While we converse together, and I feel / 'Secret correction from the bolt of truth / 'Shot home, my better soul in triumph rides, / Borne on the wings of reason to her throne."
preview | full record— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)
Date: 1796
"The trial is dangerous; he is just at that period of life when the passions are most vigorous, unbridled, and despotic."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The woman reigns in my bosom, and I am become a prey to the wildest of passions."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)