Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
" Judgment sat and heard each honest plea, / And fix'd each Verdict with his firm Decree"
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1815
One may be a "groveling slave of sense" (e.g., a miser or a epicure)
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1816
An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"
preview | full record— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Date: 1816
"He would not yield dominion of his mind / To Spirits against whom his own rebelled."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1816
"[T]o conceal, / With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,-- / Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,-- / Which is the tyrant Spirit of our thought, / Is a stern task of soul."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1817
"And, as the Mistress of the Soul, / Let mild Religion crown the whole."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"When Reason doth regain its throne, / And the mind dares its follies own."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"Ah! when will the yoke of Custom--Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all the other tyrants make their slave--ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?--when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?"
preview | full record— Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)