Date: 1842
Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1842
Fancy keeps a "glow-worm court, / Where wearied wishes all resort, / Who mixing in her tinsell'd train / Still keep their title light and vain"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1850
"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1862
"When reason gets into the throne, / The court shall teach us to be godly."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1862
"Through all our proceedings let reason bear rule"
preview | full record— Mather, Joseph (1737-1804)
Date: 1868
"When Satan rules the simple heart / Jesus alone can drive him thence."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles