Date: 1801

"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1801

Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

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

A lover's heart may be one's throne

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1801

The heart may bear a "fair image"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

A cloud may darkly over one's fancy play

— 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)