Date: 1766, 1808
"Nature, my friend, profuse in vain, / May every gift impart; / If unimprov'd, they ne'er can gain / An empire o'er the heart."
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: w. 1766, 1768
"And reason fixed her empire in my breast."
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1780
"Hast thou no failings of thine own, / No ruling passion in thy breast, / That robs thee of thy balmy rest?"
preview | full record— Anstey, Christopher (1724-1805)
Date: 1784, 1787
Temperate thought may cool glowing passions and "bow the swelling heart to reason's rule"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1788
"Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)