Date: 1809
"Still may she [Fancy] rule the manly mind; / Her sweetest magic still impart / To soften, not subdue, the heart: / Still may she warm the chosen breast, /Not as the sovereign, but the guest."
preview | full record— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
Date: 1693
"Reason you plead, if you it seems t'acquit, / But if condemn'd, its Vote you won't admit. / But still, if private Reason you pretend / Must be the Judge, Disputes will never end."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1696
Fancy may over-rule reason
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1700
"Nay some affirm that in the deepest Cell / Imperial Reason's self does not disdain to dwell."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Mind no nobler Wisdom can attain, / Than to inspect and study all the Man: / His awful Looks confess the Race Divine; / In him the Beauties of the Godhead shine: / With Majesty he fills great Reason's Throne, / The Subject World their rightful Monarch own."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
The soul may become "Oblig'd the subject Senses to obey, / And only range, where they direct the Way"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1705, 1712
In Catholicism "All humane Sense to holy Craft gave place, / And Reason was a Slave to doubtful Grace."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1705, 1712
"If Reason must not judge of Faith's true light, / How came our Guides to know the wrong from right, / Or, how their rev'rend Heads distinguish plain, / Betwixt the Bible and the Alchoran."
preview | full record— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
Date: 1712, 1736
One may be a Lord but in Title, a vassal in Effect, "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct"
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1712, 1736
There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)