Date: 1746

"See other planets, suns, and systems roll, / And with celestial science-feast the soul,/ Low as the earth-ambition sinks again, / And what was thought a pleasure proves a pain."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"We are "Tost on the surges--which our passions raise"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Such the strong passions that his reason sway, / The lust, and av'rice on his vital prey."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As love no single part of empire knows," "So shou'd our passions" extend "their full joy" to all desert

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Passions may rule over one's intellects

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"If wisdom once relax her golden reins, / No bliss is felt-but what the transport feign / Excess of joy but terminates in pain, / And impotence is ever in disdain."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The living soul breathes through all matter

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"All raving Passions soon wou'd be supprest" is man cou'd "but thro' eternity pervade"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."

— Ruffhead, James