Date: 1702
When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1702
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
preview | full record— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Date: 1703
In Ovid "Methinks, I see those Passions well exprest, / Which play the Tyrant in the Mortal Breast"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703, 1718
"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1703, 1718
Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"
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Date: 1703, 1718
Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"
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Date: 1703
"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"Virtue its Splendor ever will retain, / And Wisdom still an inward State maintain; / Still in the Soul with a Majestick Grandeur reign."
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1703
"Thrice blest are they who're with interior Graces crown'd, / Whose Minds with rational Delights abound"
preview | full record— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)
Date: 1705
"It did the curious Instruments confound, / And all the winding Labarynths of Sound, / The charming Musick-Rooms, that entertain / The Soul high seated in her Throne the Brain."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)