Date: 1772
Fancy may "mount the rapid Car, / And Judgement hold the Reins"
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811)
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: 1773
"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;"
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"'How sweetly Women bill and coo! [...] 'No gall finds room within their breast, / 'There Turtle Love erects his nest."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)
Date: 1773
"Know, lovely virgin, thy deluding art / Hath lodg'd a thousand scorpions in my breast:"
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1773
"Strong Passions draw, like Horses that are strong, / The Body-Coach of Flesh and Blood along; / While subtle Reason, with each Rein in Hand, / Sits on the Box, and has them at Command; / Rais'd up aloft, to see and to be seen, / Judges the Track, and guides the gay Machine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773, 1894-1895
The mind devour'd by "former Lawyers" is like a silly Goose ensnared by "the sly Fox"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But reasoning with a man under the influence of any passion is like endeavouring to stop a wild horse, who becomes more violent from being pursued."
preview | full record— Graves, Richard (1715-1804)
Date: 1774
"As acuteness of smell carries a dog along the path of the game for which he searches, and secures him against the danger of quitting it, upon another scent: so this happy structure of imagination leads the man of genius into those tracks where the proper ideas lurk, and not only enables him to d...
preview | full record— Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)