Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"What is it that makes a Beast be a Creature of less Liberty than Man, but only that its natural Appetites more necessarily govern all its Actions, and that it is not indued with a Faculty of Reason, whereby to exert itself, and gain a Power or Liberty of over-ruling those Appetites?"
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731-1732, 1777
"Your poet shall allot your Lord his part, / And paint him in his noblest throne--your heart."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1732
"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1733, 1736
"The ruling Passion conquers reason still."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"And hence one Master Passion in the breast, / Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."
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Date: 1733-4
"Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse; / Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse; / Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr; / We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway, / In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey."
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