Date: 1709 [1708]
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: w. c. 1704, 1709
"Provided still, you moderate your Joy, / Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ: / Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate, / Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1710, 1797
"Reason, it is true, is dictator in the society of mankind; from her there ought to lie no appeal: but here we want a POPE in our philosophy, to be the infallible judge of what is, or is not reason."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"With Tyranny, then Superstition join'd, / As that the body, this enslav'd the mind."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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)