Date: 1734

"Self-Int'rest is the mighty Prince, / Who governs all without Controul, / And dastards even the very Soul"

— Forbes of Disblair (fl. 1765-1771)

Date: [1731?] 1734

"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Date: 1733-4

"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; / Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735, 1745

The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"But equal passions let his bosom rule, / A judgment candid, and a temper cool, / Enlarg'd with knowledge, and in conscience clear, / Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735

"The Thinking Faculty ... Sighs to survey a Realm by right its own, / While Passion, [fierce co-heir] usurps the throne; / A second Nero, turbulent in sway, / His Pleasure, Noise; his Life one stormy Day; / Headstrong in love, and headstrong too in hate, / Resolv'd t'enslave the Mob, or sink the ...

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735, 1736

"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735-6

"Yielded reason speaks the soul a slave."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)