Date: 1733-4
"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735, 1745
The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"But equal passions let his bosom rule, / A judgment candid, and a temper cool, / Enlarg'd with knowledge, and in conscience clear, / Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735
"The Thinking Faculty ... Sighs to survey a Realm by right its own, / While Passion, [fierce co-heir] usurps the throne; / A second Nero, turbulent in sway, / His Pleasure, Noise; his Life one stormy Day; / Headstrong in love, and headstrong too in hate, / Resolv'd t'enslave the Mob, or sink the ...
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735, 1736
"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
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Date: 1735-6
"Yielded reason speaks the soul a slave."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Thus human life, unhinged, to ruin reel'd,
And giddy Reason totter'd on her throne."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Of one who, should the unkingly thirst of gold, / Or tyrant passions, or ambition, prompt, / Calls locust-armies o'er the blasted land:"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)