Date: 1709, 1810
"When I view my spacious soul, / And survey myself awhole, / And enjoy myself alone, / I'm a kingdom of my own."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Mind no nobler Wisdom can attain, / Than to inspect and study all the Man: / His awful Looks confess the Race Divine; / In him the Beauties of the Godhead shine: / With Majesty he fills great Reason's Throne, / The Subject World their rightful Monarch own."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
The soul may become "Oblig'd the subject Senses to obey, / And only range, where they direct the Way"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710
"Blows only pass 'twixt Porters and their Trulls, / Where brutish Rage, instead of Reason, rules, / Those of our Rank, altho' the Cause be great, / Should scorn to jar at such a scoundrel Rate."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1710
When passion cools, "Reason may again bear Rule"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"With Tyranny, then Superstition join'd, / As that the body, this enslav'd the mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1711-2
A beloved may make her lover's heart a "Sov'reign Throne" and "reign unrivall'd there"
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1711
"While Passions in their Breasts ungovern'd rage, / Distract the Mind, and War intestine wage, / Reason divine from her high Throne descends, / Lays by her Scepter, and her Pow'r suspends."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1711
"Passions impatient of the Rein, disown / Reason's Dominion, and usurp her Throne."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1711
"Thy subtile Sons, O Rome, to recompense / Their Loss of Pow'r, did Means succesful find / To found a wider Empire o'er the Mind."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)