Date: 1743
"To lift my Vot'ries, in this partial Age, /Pleas'd without Pomp, self-conscious, and alone, / Nor rais'd, thus light, on Fancy's airy Throne"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752
Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"
preview | full record— Hammond, James (1710-1742)
Date: 1743
Dullness "rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of Reason's assuming the rule of the Passions"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
Dullness in the "absence of Reason," tho' she cannot regulate the Passions like Reason, yet blunts and deadens their Vigour, and, indeed, produces some of the good effects"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1744, 1756
"Our rebel hearts" disown Love's sway "While tyrant lust usurps the throne"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1744, 1756
The soul to passion may yield her throne and see "with organs not her own"
preview | full record— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
Date: 1744
"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain! / Canst thou suspect that these, which make the Soul / The slave of earth, should own her heir of heaven?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)