Date: 1741
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade; / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Ogle, George (1704-1746)
Date: 1744
"That is to say, we think there is no Way hitherto laid down for preserving the Vigour of the Body, and thereby securing such a Supply of animal Spirits as may support the Dominion of the Soul in its full Extent and Activity, so feasible as this, which is suggested to be the Source of the Longevi...
preview | full record— Campbell, John (1708-75)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
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: 1749
Truely happy are "those who can / Govern that little empire, Man"
preview | full record— Stepney, George (1663-1707)
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: 1752
"Can you be free while passions rule you?"
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"The wise alone, / Who only bows to reason's throne; / Whom neither want, nor death, nor chains, / Nor subtle persecutor's pains, / Nor honours, wealth, nor lust can move / From virtue and his country's love."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1752
"In vain--The Master-Passion governs still, / And forces you to yield against your Will"
preview | full record— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]