Date: 1754, 1793
"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1762
"The two ruling passions of this parliament, were zeal for liberty, and an aversion to the church; and to both of these, nothing could appear more exceptionable, than the court of high commission, whose institution rendered it entirely arbitrary, and assigned to it the defence of the ecclesiastic...
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1755, 1836
"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"
preview | full record— Grainger, James (1721-1766)
Date: 1757, 1769
"The king of men to sudden rage resign'd, / At once, the empire of his mighty mind."
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Within my bosom reigns another lord; / Honour, sole judge and umpire of itself."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"Sad fear and melancholy still divide / The empire of my breast with hope and joy."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)
Date: 1757, 1777
"However we may be hurried away by the spectacle; whatever dominion the senses and imagination may usurp over the reason, there still lurks at the bottom a certain idea of falsehood in the whole of what we see"
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1757, 1777
"But TERENCE and VIRGIL maintain an universal, undisputed empire over the minds of men."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1757
"This in the mean time is obvious, that the empire of all religious faith over the understanding is wavering and uncertain, subject to every variety of humour, and dependent on the present incidents, which strike the imagination."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1759
"Sentiments, designs, affections, though it is from these that according to cool reason human actions derive their whole merit or demerit, are placed by the great Judge of hearts beyond the limits of every human jurisdiction, and are reserved for the cognizance of his own unerring tribunal."
preview | full record— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)