Date: 1723
"Vice had usurp'd the Empire of his Soul."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"[C]an Arms o'er Reason Conquests win, / And triumph o'er the awful Judge within?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Can Kings the Empire of the Soul invade?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Tho' now, 'tis true, the strong Temptation's Force / Suspends Religion, and diverts its Course; / Yet still the Pow'r that chiefly rules your Soul, / And will I trust your future Life controul, / Is heav'nly Virtue, which, tho' now opprest / It sleeps a while unactive in your Breast, / Will, rou...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
The "conscious Pow'r, the Judge within," may "With Frowns and awful Menaces begin / To fill [one] with Remorse and secret Fear"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1745
"But SATIRE's arrow searches ev'ry breast: / She plays a ruling passion on the rest"
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1745
"Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1746, 1749
"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)
Date: 1749
"With distant Voice neglected Virtue calls, / Less heard, and less the faint Remonstrance falls; / Tir'd with Contempt, she quits the slipp'ry Reign, / And Pride and Prudence take her Seat in vain."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1751
"He stood; content to bow to Custom's Throne, / So Reason mote not blush his sovran Rule to own."
preview | full record— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)