Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"They [Infidels] court their Pupils to the Pagan code, / To Nature's nudities, dim Reason's road; / Philosophy's and Fancy's rules to read, / To form their Conduct, and to fix their Creed."

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"No Soul should mix among the courtly Train, ... Among the higher, or the lower, Class, / Whose breast's not form'd of steel, and front of brass!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

Date: November 1824

"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"

— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

Date: 1842

Fancy keeps a "glow-worm court, / Where wearied wishes all resort, / Who mixing in her tinsell'd train / Still keep their title light and vain"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

Date: 1862

"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)