Date: 1773, 1810
"Hail, mild Philosophy! the province thine, / To chase the spectres of the dark Divine! / Not to fix errour, but with reason's art, / To root the stiff old-woman from the heart."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773, 1810
"Fancy no longer strews her glowing flowers, / But sad ideas crowd the dreary hours."
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1773
"Strong Passions draw, like Horses that are strong, / The Body-Coach of Flesh and Blood along; / While subtle Reason, with each Rein in Hand, / Sits on the Box, and has them at Command; / Rais'd up aloft, to see and to be seen, / Judges the Track, and guides the gay Machine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"But was it made for nothing else beside / Passions to draw, and Reason to be Guide? / Was so much Art employ'd to drag and drive / Nothing within the Vehicle alive? / No seated Mind that claims the moving Pew, / Master of Passions, and of Reason too?"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"Hail to pleasure's frolic train; / Hail to fancy's golden reign; / Festive mirth, and laughter wild, / Free and sportful as the child; / Hope with eager sparkling eyes, / And easy faith, and fond surprise: / Let these, in fairy colours drest, / Forever share my careless breast; / Then, tho' wise...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1775
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1775
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1777, 1793
"And what a crowd of wild ideas press / Distracting on the soul!"
preview | full record— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Date: 1778
"And if, O love, thy potent dart / Should reach the sleeping shepherd's heart, / O! be to him a gentler guest, / And pierce, with lighter shaft, his breast."
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1778, 1804
"The stranger, Reason, cross'd her way."
preview | full record— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)