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Date: 1731
"I will strive / To check this rising Passion; and forget / That she who charms me thus is in my Power, / Till I can bend that Pow'r, to Reason's Rule."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1731
"Conflicting Passions blast the bad Man's Hopes, / And all his Thoughts are Whirlwind!"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"Most men seem to place it in being allowed to let loose the Reins to all their Appetites and Passions without controul; to be under no restraint either from the Laws of Men, or from the Fear of God."
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"For, what does the Ambitious Prince or the Licentious Multitude; what does the Covetous, and Revengeful, or the Debauched Sinner; but only chuse to be a Servant to Passion, instead of a Follower of Right Reason?"
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1704-5; 1731
"What is it that makes a Beast be a Creature of less Liberty than Man, but only that its natural Appetites more necessarily govern all its Actions, and that it is not indued with a Faculty of Reason, whereby to exert itself, and gain a Power or Liberty of over-ruling those Appetites?"
preview | full record— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
Date: 1732
"Thus from your eyes united beams conspire, / To kindle in our souls a pleasing fire;"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1732
"Each softening heart dissolves within its breast, / And love, as on this wax, is there imprest"
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: 1732
"If there be a Passion pure without Allay, as tender and soft, as violent and strong, you cannot sure miscall it by that Name."
preview | full record— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Date: June 27, 2025
"Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought."
preview | full record— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)
