Date: 1700
"O'er Sense, o'er Reason, and o'er Love it Rules, / Custom, the Guardian, and the guide of Fools."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"Whilst in my Soul Despair her Court maintains, / And with deep Pomp in solid Darkness Reigns."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: 1700
"They cannot, no; each sigh Love's flight sustains, / O'er my own Heart in my own Breast he Reigns, / And holds too strong, my strugling Soul in Chains."
preview | full record— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)
Date: w. 1702-1713, 1989
"[I]f reason from the throne be gon / The madd affections bear their master on"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1702-1713, 1989
"The tyrant passions tread fair meritt down / & their proud thrones erect above the crown"
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)
"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1731
"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: [1731?] 1734
"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)