Date: 1777
Attempts at gaiety may look like "a conquest over the natural pensiveness of [the] mind"
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1777
"Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, / And she shall find that Reason conquers Love"
preview | full record— Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Date: 1778
"We can earnestly endeavour to avoid evil, only by a uniform disposition to combat our appetites and passions."
preview | full record— Caulfield (fl. 1778)
Date: 1779
One may be 'Untaught "to bear the wrongs of base mankind, / The last, and hardest conquest of the mind!"'
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780, 1781, 1788
"Two passions there by soft contention please, / The love of martial Fame, and learned Ease: / These friendly colours, exquisitely join'd, / Form the enchanting picture of thy mind."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1780
" Let no remorse invade thy purposed mind, / But to one standard level all mankind."
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1782
"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"In the field, if we know the strength and situation of the enemy, we place out-posts and centinels--and take every prudent method to avoid surprize. In common life we must do the same;--and trust me, my honest friend, a victory gained over passion, immorality, and pride, deserves Te Deums, bette...
preview | full record— Sancho, Charles Ignatius (1729-1780)
Date: 1784
Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1784, 1804
"The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences."
preview | full record— Huntington, William (1745-1813)