Date: 1733
"Swell'd with vain Learning, vainer Man conceives, / That 'tis with him the bright Minerva lives; / That she descends to dwell with him alone, / And in his Breast erects her starry Throne."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: [1731?] 1734
"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1735-6
"Yielded reason speaks the soul a slave."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Thus human life, unhinged, to ruin reel'd,
And giddy Reason totter'd on her throne."
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735-6
"Of one who, should the unkingly thirst of gold, / Or tyrant passions, or ambition, prompt, / Calls locust-armies o'er the blasted land:"
preview | full record— Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)
Date: 1735, 1792
"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"
preview | full record— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)