Date: 1810

"Had Bethlehem's star, of humble swains the guide; / Of souls, unclouded with pedantick pride; / On thee benighted, beamed, with friendly ray, / With all the light of evangelick day; / Ideas, in thy brain, had held no dance / Of anarchy, thou citizen of France!"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1812

"[R]eviving joy and lingering gloom" may "Alternate empire o'er [the] soul assume."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

Love or Pride may be a master-passion

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

Reason may rule us in her proper place

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1813

Love may be a ruling passion

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1813

One passion governs every gallant mind

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1813

Country's love may be a ruling passion

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1814

"No single passion, and no ruling thought / That leaves the rest, as once, unseen, unsought, / But the wild prospect when the Soul reviews, / All rushing through their thousand avenues"

— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)

Date: w. August 1814

"Fill for me a brimming bowl / *And let me in it drown my soul: */ But put therein some drug, designed */ To Banish Women from my mind."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)