Date: 1744
"TRAGEDY and COMEDY; the first fixes her Empire on the Passions, and the more exalted Contractions and Dilations of the Heart; the last, tho' not inferior (quotidem Science) holds her Rule over the less enobled Qualities and Districts of human Nature, which are call'd the Humours."
preview | full record— Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Date: 1798
"Women have a frame of body more delicate and susceptible of impression than men, and, in proportion as they receive a less intellectual education, are more unreservedly under the empire of feeling."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"Wounded affection, wounded pride, all those principles which hold absolute empire in the purest and loftiest minds, urged her to still further experiments to recover her influence, and to a still more poignant desparation, long after reason would have directed her to desist, and resolutely call ...
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1798
"But a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 387-8 or 391-5
"Our next subject is whether reason judges the inner sense."
preview | full record— St. Augustine (354-430)
Date: w. 1718 [first published 1907]
"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: 1700
"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: November 1824
"Shall human reason frame a rule to draw / Before its puny court the cognizance / Of a Divine eternal ordinance / With warrants of its own?"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: October 1807
Pride, wrong, rage, despair, can make may nearly touch the brain, "And reason on her throne would shake"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)