Date: 1706, 1715 [1706-1721]
"At the sight of this object I am not my own master: my soul is disturbed and rebels, and I fancy it has a mind to leave me!"
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1744
"TRAGEDY and COMEDY; the first fixes her Empire on the Passions, and the more exalted Contractions and Dilations of the Heart; the last, tho' not inferior (quotidem Science) holds her Rule over the less enobled Qualities and Districts of human Nature, which are call'd the Humours."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: w. 1718 [first published 1907]
"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: January 29, 1708
"[I]f thou wilt prolong / Dire Compotation, forthwith Reason quits / Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule, / And vain Debates"
preview | full record— Philips, John (1676-1709)
Date: 1741
"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: w. August, 1745; 1822
"Above the thirst of gold, if in his heart / Ambition govern'd, Av'rice had no part."
preview | full record— Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708-1759)
Date: 1700
One cannot find "A throne so soft as in a woman's mind"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700
"Conscience alone, my awful Judge within, / Does not acquit me of enormous Sin / But God and all his sacred Angels, bear / Witness to this, and will my Justice clear."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1700
"To th' uncorrupted Judge within thy Breast / Thy Conscience I appeal; will that attest / That thou believ'st what thou hast boldly said, / That Job does God in Righteousness exceed?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)