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."

— Somervile, William (1675-1742)

Date: 1727, 1728

"Blest be the Prince, who thus his Power employs, / He moves in Smiles, and lives in circling Joys; / Superior to the Tyrant's savage Arts, / Founds his firm Empire on his Subjects Hearts; / From gentlest Virtues draws the noble Plan, / And proves the Monarch something more than Man."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1727, 1728

A young man may be "Possess'd of every virtue, grace, and art, / That claims just empire o'er the female heart"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: Friday, February 24, 1727

" Nay, some grave Reasoners and Refiners upon this Subject have gone farther, and maintain'd that a stanch Politician ought not only to be exempt from Intemperance, Effeminacy, and other common Frailties of human Nature; but should also enfranchize his Mind from the Dominion of what are commonly ...

— Caleb d'Anvers [pseud. for Nicholas Amhurst, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath]

Date: 1728

"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1728

For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1728

"Soon as the short Delirium past you find, / And Sense regains it's Empire o'er the Mind, / You bless the Hand that eas'd your anxious Cares, / And pour for Brunswick's House incessant Prayers!"

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1728

"Yet Care, a greater Tyrant, rules your Breast; / You, with a Nod, the suppliant World command, / Yet cannot rule that little Empire, Man."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1729, 1737

"But now no longer mine, / The Reins of Empire I resign: / Let Men submit to Reason's rules, / And be at least designing fools."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1713, 1729

Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"

— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)