Date: 1735, 1763
"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735, 1763
"But equal passions let his bosom rule, / A judgment candid, and a temper cool, / Enlarg'd with knowledge, and in conscience clear, / Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear."
preview | full record— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
Date: 1735
"The Thinking Faculty ... Sighs to survey a Realm by right its own, / While Passion, [fierce co-heir] usurps the throne; / A second Nero, turbulent in sway, / His Pleasure, Noise; his Life one stormy Day; / Headstrong in love, and headstrong too in hate, / Resolv'd t'enslave the Mob, or sink the ...
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1735, 1736
"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1735
"Tho' Reason's Lord, some ruling Passion's Tool, / The wisest man, in some things, is a Fool"
preview | full record— Miller, James (1704-1744)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1732, 1736
Reason may over-rule fancy
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1737
"So, from the narrow Limits of the Heart, / The active Soul does vig'rous Life impart / To all the Limbs: it's Sway the Members own, / And wide it's Empire spreads around it's Throne."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Regard thy Powers, O Man! nor heed thy Size: / In piercing Reason thy Advantage lies; / Reason that conquers all, and rules the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)