Date: 1780
"Reason, (weak empress of the mind) / To passion had the helm consign'd"
preview | full record— Steele, Anne (1717-1778)
Date: 1780
Virtue and "this virtues woman" may be "first ruling passions"
preview | full record— Steele, Anne (1717-1778)
Date: 1780
"Reason's empire never knew a slave, / Her sway is gentle and her laws are kind"
preview | full record— Steele, Anne (1717-1778)
Date: 1781
"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781
"Insulted Reason fled the grov'ling soul, / For Fear to guide, and visions to control: / But now, when Reason has assumed her throne, / She, in her turn, demands to reign alone"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
Reason may reject "all that lies beyond her view / And being judge, will be a witness too"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1782
"Now thro' the Whole, each rank, and sex, and age, / One common ruling passion bids engage."
preview | full record— Scott, John, of Amwell (1730-1783)
Date: 1782
Those who wear "The Zone of Venus" "never know / To what enchanting charm they owe / The empire of the heart"
preview | full record— Logan, John (1748-1788)
Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)