Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752

Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"

— Hammond, James (1710-1742)

Date: 1745

"Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known, / Too long to Love hath reason left her throne; / Too long my genius mourn'd his myrtle chain, / And three rich years of youth consum'd in vain."

— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)

Date: 1747

Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1762

"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"Man in this world, Sir, may be compared to a hackney-coach upon a stand; continually subject to be drawn by his unruly appetites, on one foolish jaunt or another; but you will say, if his appetites are horses, which as it were drag him along, reason is the coachman to rule those horses--But, Sir...

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1768

A beloved may "o'ercome" a lover's "yielding heart" and fix "her empire there"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1778

"Apropos--the charming little thing she reigns a very tyrant in my heart, and I long to see her Lady Rampart."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

Date: 1778

"O love, thou dear sweet tyrant of the soul, / Where you possess you must engross the whole."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

Date: 1784, 1804

"The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences."

— Huntington, William (1745-1813)