Date: 1801

Virtue may be a man's "eternal flame" or "ruling passion"

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1805

"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

Date: 1807-8

"Let them approach: / Myriads of slaves like these appal not me, / Who in my people's hearts have built my throne, / Strong as their courage, stedfast as their truth."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1815

One may be a "groveling slave of sense" (e.g., a miser or a epicure)

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1817

"And, as the Mistress of the Soul, / Let mild Religion crown the whole."

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1817

"But think not in your jovial hours, / When Riot rules and Reason lours, / That time is actively employ'd."

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1817

"When Reason doth regain its throne, / And the mind dares its follies own."

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

Date: 1818

The faithful bless the Lord's "empire o'er the willing soul"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)