Date: 1772
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Date: 1772
"Their ruling Passion Want of Gold supplies, / To that alone they offer Sacrifice; / The Thirst of Gold was first the guilty Source / Of our Misfortunes, and their bloody Force."
preview | full record— Whyte, Samuel (1733-1811) [Editor]
Date: June 4, 1772, 1773
In the fields "peerless Fancy hads her court / And tunes her lays."
preview | full record— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Date: 1772
"Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1764, 1773
"Such is my theme, which means to prove, / That tho' we drink, or game, or love, / As that or this is most in fashion, / Precedence is our ruling passion."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: 1773
Injur'd Reason may "her lost rights again / Resume, and of the passions take the rein"
preview | full record— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)
Date: 1773
"There may I worship, and there may'st Thou place / Thy Seat of Mercy and Thy Throne of Grace; / Yea, fix, if Christ my Advocate appear, / The dread Tribunal of Thy Justice there!"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"The grand Contrivance why so well equip / With strength of Passions, rul'd by Reason's Whip?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But there was a judge in the bosom of Annesly, whom it was more difficult to satisfy; nor could he for a long time be brought to pardon himself that blow, for which the justice of his country had acquitted him."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1773
"Madness ensu'd, while Reason fled her Throne."
preview | full record— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)