Date: 1711
"While Passions in their Breasts ungovern'd rage, / Distract the Mind, and War intestine wage, / Reason divine from her high Throne descends, / Lays by her Scepter, and her Pow'r suspends."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1712
If "Idola from foul Figures rise, / Their roughness Shocks the Soul, and Wounds the Eyes. / And, as with Spears, which grow from bladed Corn, / Invade the Mind, and make the Senses mourn"
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)
Date: 1717
"Bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1722
"Mankind, from the eldest ages, have felt great disturbance in themselves, from a vehement and constant strife between their reason and their passions; they found themselves distracted by these inward warring principles, of which they were compounded, drawing different ways, and contending for vi...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
"When they followed the dictates for reason, they bore the torment of ungratify'd inordinate appetites; and when they chose to obey their passions, reflection fill'd them with terror and remorse: and in this sense, it is true, that all men are born in a state of war; that is, they felt in themsel...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1722
" But the immediate disciples of these two great masters were much divided about reconciling the two combatants, reason and passion, and bring this intestine war to an end."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1737
"At Eyes alone our Beaus direct their art, / Nor know the nobler Conquest of the Heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1737
"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."
preview | full record— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)
Date: 1741-2
A "wounded conscience" may throb beneath a star, and shake one's "fabric with intestine war"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)