Date: 1725-6
"Homer therefore evidently understood that the soul ought to govern and direct the passions, and that it is of a nature more divine than harmony."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.
Date: 1725
"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1727
"The Wretch is indigent and poor, / Who brooding sits o'er his ill-gotten Store; / Trembling with Guilt, and haunted by his Sin, / He feels the rigid Judge within"
preview | full record— Somervile, William (1675-1742)
Date: 1728
For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1731
"Worn out with Cares, and tott'ring in her Seat, / The Soul resigns her Throne, and seeks Retreat."
preview | full record— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Date: 1737
"So, from the narrow Limits of the Heart, / The active Soul does vig'rous Life impart / To all the Limbs: it's Sway the Members own, / And wide it's Empire spreads around it's Throne."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"Regard thy Powers, O Man! nor heed thy Size: / In piercing Reason thy Advantage lies; / Reason that conquers all, and rules the Skies."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
Date: 1737
"The Man a nobler Empire gains, / That his own craving Will restrains, / Than he whose Sword and wide Command / Join distant Spain and Lybia's Land."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)