Date: 1802

One must leave improvements of the "vast domain" and "prop the throne of reason e're it falls."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1802

In England "There, still may sense and reason have a throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1802

"The veriest carl that nature ever made, / Heir to the flail, the wallet, and the spade, / Boasts in fair freedom's isle a free-born mind, / And sighs to share the birth-right of his kind."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1802

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1803

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1805

"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1810

"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1810

"Kindness can woo the Lion from his den, / A moral teaching to the sons of men; / His mighty heart in silken bonds can draw, / And bend his nature to sweet Pity's law."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)