Date: 1718, 1720
"For Love's my constant Guest, / And reigns a Lordly Tyrant in my Breast."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"Thou know'st the secret Soul's imperial Throne / Surrounded with thick Darkness, like thy own, / Where she to all the Senses Audience gives, / Appoints their Tasks, their Messages receives, / And passes Judgement in her Sov'reign Court / On every Envoy's true or false Report / How her sole Nod...
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1727
"With inflected View, / Thence on th' Ideal Kingdom, swift, she turns / Her Eye; and instant, at her virtual Glance, / Th' obedient Phantoms vanish, and appear, / Compound, divide, and into Order shift, / Each to his rank, from plain Perception up / To Notion quite abstract; where first begins / ...
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1729
"O man! thy fabric's like a well-form'd state; / Thy thoughts, first-rank'd, were sure design'd the great!"
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"Passions plebeians are, which faction raise; / Wine, like pour'd oil, excites the raging blaze: / Then giddy anarchy's rude triumphs rise: / Then sov'reign reason from her empire flies."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1729
"That ruler [Reason] once depos'd, wisdom and wit, / To noise and folly, place and pow'r submit."
preview | full record— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)
Date: 1734
"My free-born thoughts I'll not confine, / Though all Parnassus could be mine."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1734
"This flesh, this circling blood, these brutal powers, / Made to obey, turn rebels to the mind, / Nor hear its laws"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1739
"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)