Date: 1723
"Vice had usurp'd the Empire of his Soul."
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Date: 1723
"[C]an Arms o'er Reason Conquests win, / And triumph o'er the awful Judge within?"
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Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
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Date: 1723
"Tho' now, 'tis true, the strong Temptation's Force / Suspends Religion, and diverts its Course; / Yet still the Pow'r that chiefly rules your Soul, / And will I trust your future Life controul, / Is heav'nly Virtue, which, tho' now opprest / It sleeps a while unactive in your Breast, / Will, rou...
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Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
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Date: 1725
"Obedient let my Passions be / To all the Rules of strict Morality."
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Date: 1727
"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1727
A "little Loves" empire over swains' Hearts may be frail until Miranda crowns the Triumphs
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Date: 1727
In the great hero's breast "no unruly Passions reign, / Nor servile Fear, nor proud Disdain, / Each wilder Lust is banish'd hence, / Where gentle Love presides, and mild Benevolence."
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Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)