Date: 1812

Love or Pride may be a master-passion

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

Reason may rule us in her proper place

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1812

"Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake, / And strength of mind but stronger madness make."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

Date: 1813

Love may be a ruling passion

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1813

One passion governs every gallant mind

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1813

Country's love may be a ruling passion

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1814

Shakespeare, "born for British minds alone, / To them has Fancy's boundless empire shewn"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

Byron's "powerful voice, with varying tone, / Makes all the empire of the mind thine own"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

Scott may "Usurp the empire of the wilder'd mind, / And leave the forms of modern life behind"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)

Date: 1814

Potent rulers of opinion may rule "the empire of the willing heart"

— Grant [née MacVicar], Anne (1755-1838)