Date: 1746, 1749
"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1749
"With distant Voice neglected Virtue calls, / Less heard, and less the faint Remonstrance falls; / Tir'd with Contempt, she quits the slipp'ry Reign, / And Pride and Prudence take her Seat in vain."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1749
God may one's "longing heart vouchsafe to make / [His] everlasting throne"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
God may "Come quickly" and "in every heart / Set up [His] throne of love
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1749
"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)
Date: 1751
"But sure thy mind was meant the court of love, / Soft as the joys, that yielding virgins move."
preview | full record— Harman, P.
Date: 1751, 1791
"Some few there are of sordid mould, / Who barter youth and bloom for gold; / Careless with what, or whom they mate, / Their ruling passion's all for state."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1751, 1791
"To Fancy's court we strait apply, / And wait the sentence of her eye."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)