Date: 1684
" Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown / Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1686
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1687
"While pride and pomp allure, and plenteous ease, / That is, till man's predominant passions cease, / Admire no longer at my slow increase."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
"My Passions rule, long since my Reason dyde"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"But, when arrived at last to human race, / The Godhead took a deep considering space; / And, to distinguish man from all the rest, / Unlocked the sacred treasures of his breast; / And mercy mixt with reason did impart, / One to his head, the other to his heart; / Reason to rule, but mercy to f...
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1687
A monarch may reign "In his Subjects Hearts, as on his Throne"
preview | full record— Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)
Date: 1687
"Conscience is the Royalty and Prerogative of every Private man. He is absolute in his own Breast, and accountable to no Earthly Power, for that which passes only betwixt God and Him."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"When Reason with her Robes ascends the Throne, / And wisely all my scatter'd Thoughts calls home, / The Messenger is so divine, / Unto her Laws I must resign."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)
Date: 1693
"For should I let these Thoughts but rove / They'd fix upon Tyrannick Love."
preview | full record— Hawkshaw, Benjamin (1671/2-1738)