Date: w. c. 1779
"[T]hen prudence took her Seat / Within the Soul, and reign'd in Virtue's room."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
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: 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
"But what is man in his own proud esteem? / Hear him, himself the poet and the theme: / A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, / His mind his kingdom, and his will his law, / Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes, / Supreme on Earth and worthy of the skies, / Strength in his heart, dominion in...
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1784, 1787
Temperate thought may cool glowing passions and "bow the swelling heart to reason's rule"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)
Date: 1785
"Sov'reigns are subjects to the master part; / The ruling passion still maintains its post, / Monarch o'er monarchs, and the mortal's lost."
preview | full record— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Date: 1785
When Passion dwells in the heart it is "Pleasure's court"
preview | full record— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)
Date: 1788
"Does matter govern spirit? or is mind / Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
preview | full record— More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Date: 1788
"On Eloquence, prevailing art! / Whose force can chain the list'ning heart; / The throb of Sympathy inspire, / And kindle every great desire; / With magic energy controul / And reign the sov'reign of the soul!"
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)