Date: 1783, 1810
"As when thou call'st the shuddering thoughts to mourn / O'er talents wither'd in the untimely urn; / To grieve that Penury's resistless storm / Beat cold and deadly o'er the shrinking form, / Where mighty Genius had those powers enshrined, / Whose reign is boundless o'er each feeling mind; / To ...
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Date: 1783
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
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Date: w. 1769, 1784
"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"
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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: 1784
Ah! poor humanity! so frail, so fair, / Are the fond visions of thy early day, / Till tyrant passion, and corrosive care, / Bid all thy fairy colours fade away!"
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Date: 1784
Go, cruel tyrant of the human breast! / To other hearts, thy burning arrows bear; / Go, where fond hope, and fair illusion rest!"
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Date: 1784
"I hurry forward, passion's helplesss slave! And scorning reason's mild and sober light, / Pursue the path that leads me to the grave!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)