Date: 1731

"Proud of Dominion, yet enslav'd to Fear, / Kings who love Blood, thro' one long Tempest steer, / While the calm Monarch, who with Smiles controuls, / Roots his safe Empire, and is King of Souls."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1731

"'Tis true, my Favourite has betray'd me, basely; / But he was first, himself, betray'd by Love; / That Tyrant of the Heart, more King than I, / Ranks Monarchs with his Slaves."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1731

"I will strive / To check this rising Passion; and forget / That she who charms me thus is in my Power, / Till I can bend that Pow'r, to Reason's Rule."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734

Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Man, the deceiver, veils his cruel art, / And skreens himself within th' attempted heart; / There, to ungen'rous empire, climbs, e'er long, / Help'd by the confidence he means to wrong."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1739

Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1714, 1739

Two woman may "with equal Ardor assure [themselves] of the Empire of a [man's] heart

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"All the Revolutions that inhuman Fortune can expose us to, the Loss of Grandeur, Persecutions, the Poison of Envy, and the Insults of Hatred, have nothing in 'em but what the Resolutions of a Mind where Reason has the least Rule, can easily defy."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)