Date: 1761, 1765

Authors may "drag down Reason from her throne / Or make her reign unaided and alone"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

Music may hold "sov'reign empire o'er the heart"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

"If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey."

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

"If Passion domineers with wild uproar, / Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore, / To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh."

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1801

A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

Doubts and fears may "Contend for empire and distract the mind"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

One may fix his empire "o'er the soul of man"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

Subtlety may steal "insidious empire o'er [the] weaken'd heart"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

A king may "fix his empire o'er the willing heart"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

Date: 1810

"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)