Date: 1702

The "dull Remains of Fear" may be banished [from the mind?]

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

Reason rules with a "God-like, and a Peaceful Hand"

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

When Reason's "Pow'r is Despicable grown, / And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne, / The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys; / But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

"But, Oh! 'tis past; and I will charge Remembrance / To banish the fond Image from my Soul."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1702

"Nature asserts her Empire in her Heart, / And kindly takes the faithful Lover's part."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1702

""Reason resumes her Empire, / And I am cool again."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1702

"For oh! My faithful Haly, / Another Care has taken up thy Master; / Spight of the high-wrought Tempest in my Soul, / Spight of the Pangs, which Jealousy has cost me; / This haughty Woman reigns within my Breast: / In vain I strive to put her from my Thoughts, / To drive her out with Empire, and ...

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1700, 1702

"Love reigns my Tyrant, to himself alone / He vindicates the Empire of my Breast, / And banishes all Thoughts of Joy for ever."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)