Date: 1700

"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1700

One cannot find "A throne so soft as in a woman's mind"

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: May 10, 1704

"Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason."

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: w. c. 1704, 1709

"Provided still, you moderate your Joy, / Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ: / Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate, / Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1725

A child may be governed Reason and her Father, unless she (like the rest of the "ungovernable Sex") think her own will her best adviser

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1729, 1737

"But now no longer mine, / The Reins of Empire I resign: / Let Men submit to Reason's rules, / And be at least designing fools."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1739, 1741

"Tho' Crouds may change, unfaithful as the Wind! / Can They depose the Monarc from his Mind?"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1739, 1741

"Great is the Empire of an honest Heart"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1739, 1741

"Fortune may change the State, not change the Soul"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"He knew, that vain was ev'ry Art, design'd / To check the Freedom of the humane Will; / That Restraints could shackle up the Mind, / Which, self-determin'd, kept her Empire still."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)