Date: 1725
"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"
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Date: 1725
In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1726, 1781
In Bedlam a "shiv'ring Monarch keeps his awful Court, / And far and wide, as boundless Thought can stray, / Extends a vast imaginary Sway"
preview | full record— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Excited, thus, the smother'd fire, at length, / Bursts into blaze, and burns, with open strength: / That image, which, before, but sooth'd the mind, / Now lords it there, and rages, unconfined"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Divinely proud of independent will, / Prince of your passions, live their sovereign still."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
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Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
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Date: 1727
In the great hero's breast "no unruly Passions reign, / Nor servile Fear, nor proud Disdain, / Each wilder Lust is banish'd hence, / Where gentle Love presides, and mild Benevolence."
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727, 1728
"Blest be the Prince, who thus his Power employs, / He moves in Smiles, and lives in circling Joys; / Superior to the Tyrant's savage Arts, / Founds his firm Empire on his Subjects Hearts; / From gentlest Virtues draws the noble Plan, / And proves the Monarch something more than Man."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)