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)

Date: 1816

An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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)

Date: 1823

"[I]n the virtuous heart is fix'd [Love's] lasting throne"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1823

"On either side, and all around, engrav'd / Were mystic symbols seen of free-born hearts enslav'd"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: w. 1775, 1827

"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined; / And either Muse is all thine own!"

— Crowe, William (1745-1829)