Date: 1761, 1765

Authors may "drag down Reason from her throne / Or make her reign unaided and alone"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

Music may hold "sov'reign empire o'er the heart"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

"If Prejudices rule with tyrant sway, / Teach them the voice of Reason to obey."

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1761, 1765

"If Passion domineers with wild uproar, / Speak, and again the Mind's lost peace restore, / To Thee, when sickness or distress draw nigh."

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1765

"Mere Affectation vainly would assert / A steady, lasting empire o'er the heart"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1765

"When Reason, on her dictatorial throne, / Argues and pleads, with undecisive tone; / Thy rhetoric of sound, beyond her aid, / Thy lyre-breath'd strains of language can persuade."

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)

Date: 1776, 1778

"If Peace hath fled the human kind, / With her the empire of the Mind, For bodies to contend"

— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)