Date: 1752, 1791
"Know too, the joys of sense controul, / And clog the motions of the soul; / Forbid her pinions to aspire, / Damp and impair her native fire: / And sure as Sense (that tyrant!) reigns, / She holds the empress, Soul, in chains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
"Now proud, imperial reason, boast thy pow'r!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
"E'en while her smile-dress'd beauty fills my eyes, / And life itself pierc'd by the musick, dies, / To shew proud joys, that reason rules 'em all."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
Ambition may ascend to her Throne "Whilst ev'ry Kindred Grace her Queen attends"
preview | full record— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)
Date: 1753
"Bless his protective hand, that calls out Arts, / And hail his Empire, o'er a people's hearts."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1753
Love may "To slighted beauty .. new powers impart: / And stretch the aided empire of the heart"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
The "grim natives" of East-Brent were of "reason wholly void, whom instinct rules"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754, 1793
"Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng, / Their syllogistic war prolong, / And reason's empire boast."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1793
Griefs may "alternate o'er the bosom reign"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1754, 1793
"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)