Date: 1682
"Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, / My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air."
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
Date: 1683
"Falsely they [sense and rhyme] seem each other to oppose; / Rhyme must be made with Reason's laws to close; / And when to conquer her you bend your force, / The mind will triumph in the noble course."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1683
"To Reason's yoke she quickly will incline, / Which, far from hurting, renders her divine; / But if neglected, will as easily stray, / And master Reason, which she should obey."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700) [Poem ascribed to]
Date: 1684
Reason may fix "its peaceful Throne" in the mind and reign alone
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
"The Will its easie Neck to Bondage gave, / And to the ruling Faculty became a Slave."
preview | full record— Oldham, John (1653-1683)
Date: 1684
To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
" Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown / Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"Examine how your Humour is inclin'd, / And which the Ruling Passion of your Mind"
preview | full record— Dillon, Wentworth, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)