Date: 1681
"This [sadness] fetters all our Senses, pulleth down / Heav'ns Image, Reason from her rightful Throne / And in her room, by Fancies pow'rful Charm, / Sets up a feigned Ill to work our Harm."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
"O who shall me deliver whole, / From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: November, 1682
"They, who the written rule had never known, / Were to themselves both rule and law alone: / To nature's plain indictment they shall plead; / And, by their conscience, be condemn'd or freed."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1682
"Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, / My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air."
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
Date: 1684
To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
" Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown / Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1684
"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1686
"That many-headed Monster [the passions] has thrown down / Its lawful Monarch Reason from its Throne."
preview | full record— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)
Date: 1686
"Nor does its [sickness's] Malice in these bounds restrain, / But shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit, the Brain, / And with a ne're enough detested Force / Reason disturbs, and turns out of its Course."
preview | full record— Killigrew, Anne (1660-1685)
Date: 1687
"While pride and pomp allure, and plenteous ease, / That is, till man's predominant passions cease, / Admire no longer at my slow increase."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)