Date: 1762
Grief may be subdued "by reason's empire shown"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1784
Vanity is more a man's ruling passion than a woman's
preview | full record— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Date: 1788
"Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
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Date: 1782
"Perish the barb'rous maxims of the East, / Which basely wou'd enslave the free-born mind, / And plunder it of the best gift of Heav'n, / Its liberty!"
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Date: April 18, 1721
"One Argument is ballanc'd by another, / And Reason Reason meets in doubtful Fight, / And Proofs are countermin'd by equal Proofs. / No more I'll bear this Battel of the Mind, / This inward Anarchy."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1777
"The most pointed satire I remember to have read, on a mind enslaved by anger, is an observation of Seneca's."
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Date: 1777
"But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees."
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Date: 1759
"In the fairyland of fancy, genius may wander wild; there it has a creative power, and may reign arbitrarily over its own empire of chimeras."
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Date: 1742
"It makes us wander; wander earth around / To fly that tyrant, Thought."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: 1742
"Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge; / Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign, / That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy!"
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