Date: 1799
"Thou enviest the sovereignty Pizarro holds over my heart; but be assured, you never shall reign there."
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1799
"A country is only a family on a larger scale; and transient, indeed, must that unanimity be, when inclination is law, and the various passions of the mind are suffer'd to run riot"
preview | full record— West, Matthew (d. 1814); Kotzebue (1761-1819)
Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the secret Soul's imperial Throne / Surrounded with thick Darkness, like thy own, / Where she to all the Senses Audience gives, / Appoints their Tasks, their Messages receives, / And passes Judgement in her Sov'reign Court / On every Envoy's true or false Report / How her sole Nod...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul!"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1862
"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1596
"In this respect [conscience] may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: 1765, 1770
"Great is the soul which fears no vulgar awe, / But proves with pride that love's her first, great law."
preview | full record— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)
Date: November 1824
"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: April 1761
"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)