Date: 1746
Passions may rule the breast so that one "prevails and lords it o'er the rest"
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"As love no single part of empire knows," "So shou'd our passions" extend "their full joy" to all desert
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1746
"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."
preview | full record— Ruffhead, James
Date: 1747
"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)
Date: 1747
"And where's the boasted liberty of man? / Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust / Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1747, 1811
"'Yes, if his soul to reason's rule resign'd, / 'And heaven's own views fair-opening on his mind,/ 'Caught from bright nature's flame the living ray, / 'Through passion's cloud pour'd in resistless day; / 'And taught mankind in reas'ning Pride's despite, / 'That God is wise, and all that is righ...
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1747
"E'en stern ecclesiasticks laid aside / (To welcome him) their ruling passion, pride."
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)