Date: 1700

"View your own Charms, Madam, then judge my Passion."

— Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)

Date: 1726

"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1763

"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1785

Play [gambling] may be a ruling passion

— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)

Date: 1792

"Love sits triumphant on the heart--his throne! / And breaks those fetters bigots would impose, / To aggravate the sense of human woes!"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1792

Shakespeare "placed aloft on Inspiration's throne, / Made Fancy's magic kingdom all his own, / Burst from the trammels which his muse confined, / And poured the wealth of his exhaustless mind!"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

Date: 1696

"Tho' she be / A Slave, her Mind is free, and shou'd consent."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1696

"Nay, then it must be she: it is Imoinda: My Heart confesses her, and leaps for joy, / To welcome her to her own Empire here."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1696

"Here I reign / In full delights, in Joys to Pow'r unknown; / Your Love my Empire, and your Heart my Throne."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1759

"Is human nature exil'd from thy breast?"

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)