Date: 1746, 1753

"Heart, voice, mein, visage, all, pay love their aid, / Cupid exacts more strict alliance made; / 'Twixt the mind's states, than, once, 'twixt Europe's, he, / Who bound all princes--yet, left none unfree."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1746

"Of all the frenzy that enslaves the mind, / Ambition--thus to rule--is sure the worst."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave, / Tarnish the glory of the truly brave, / The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colors drest."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Whirl'd by the swift rotations of the mind," man may be ruled by his pride and live to present bliss

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Passions may rule the breast so that one "prevails and lords it o'er the rest"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Rebellion may lurk in the "faithless heart"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"One tyrant passion rules the soul of man"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As love no single part of empire knows," "So shou'd our passions" extend "their full joy" to all desert

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Passions may rule over one's intellects

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."

— Ruffhead, James