Date: 1667, 1710
"If we are not acquainted with God, our Souls serve us to little purpose: It is a causing the Prince, the Soul, to go on Foot, and to serve the Body, which should be as a Servant; it is to let the Candle of the Lord burn out in waste."
preview | full record— Janeway, James (1636?-1674)
Date: 1684
To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
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"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants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: 1701
"But that little availed, for Artesia having in like sort opened the Device to Pamela, she (in whose mind Vertue governed with the Scepter of Knowledge) hating so horrible a Wickedness, and strait judging what was fit to do."
preview | full record— Sidney, Philip, Sir (1554-1586)
Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1744
"Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find / New, unexpected witnesses against thee? / Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain! / Canst thou suspect that these, which make the Soul / The slave of earth, should own her heir of heaven?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1744
"The witnesses are heard; the cause is o'er; / Let Conscience file the sentence in her court, / Dearer than deeds that half a realm convey."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)