Date: 1726
"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."
preview | full record— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)
Date: 1726, 1781
In Bedlam a "shiv'ring Monarch keeps his awful Court, / And far and wide, as boundless Thought can stray, / Extends a vast imaginary Sway"
preview | full record— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Excited, thus, the smother'd fire, at length, / Bursts into blaze, and burns, with open strength: / That image, which, before, but sooth'd the mind, / Now lords it there, and rages, unconfined"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: September 10, 1726
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms."
preview | full record— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)
Date: 1726, 1753
"Divinely proud of independent will, / Prince of your passions, live their sovereign still."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1726
"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)