Date: 1762
"All pow’rful Grace, exert thy gentle Sway, / And teach my rebel Passions to obey: / Lest lurking Folly with insidious Art / Regain my volatile inconstant Heart."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1766
Melancholy may "round [one's] heart erect [her] ebon throne"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1766
"Sweet friendship in the heart confirms her throne"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: w. 1763, 1776
"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1788
"Heav'n heaves the heart, and reason rules the head."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"But if rebellion vex each vital part, / The head made dark by demons in the heart, / The will runs riot, while the passions rule, / The soul a slave, and reason quite a tool"
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Date: 1788
"The soul [is] a slave, and reason quite a tool."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1788
"When reason governs, as her Maker meant, / Each subject passion feels its proper bent."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)