Date: 1761, 1765
Authors may "drag down Reason from her throne / Or make her reign unaided and alone"
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
Music may hold "sov'reign empire o'er the heart"
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Date: 1761, 1765
"If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1761, 1765
"If Passion domineers with wild uproar, / Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore, / To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh."
preview | full record— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Date: 1763
"Doth Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow, / Or from a Spring more pure doth Action flow? / Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains / Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns / O'er Kings and Beggars, which in all we see / Most strong and sov'reign, only weak in Thee?"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1763
"Quit then, in prudence quit, that idle train / Of toys, which have so long abus'd thy brain, / And captive led thy pow'rs; with boundless will / Let SELF maintain her state and empire still."
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Date: 1763
"The Judge within the Mind, shall ev'ry Cause / Impartial weigh, and cancel useless Laws"
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Date: 1764
Brave rage, a "grand master passion," may flame out for country
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may overturn Reason's throne and strive "proudly in its place to plant her own"
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may be undermined, her empire thrown down, "By means of sense, from whom she holds the crown"
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