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."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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)
Date: 1735
"Tho' Reason's Lord, some ruling Passion's Tool, / The wisest man, in some things, is a Fool"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1735
"Here every Error of the lawless Mind, / The Monsters of distemper'd Thought we find."
preview | full record— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)