Date: 1702
"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
The "dull Remains of Fear" may be banished [from the mind?]
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
Reason rules with a "God-like, and a Peaceful Hand"
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Date: 1702
When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
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Date: 1704
"When gentle Reason rules thy Breast; / The Sun upon the calmest Sea / Appears not half so bright as Thee."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)