Date: 1701

"Nor can this right be less when national; / Reason which governs one, should govern all."

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

Date: 1701

"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."

— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)

Date: 1701

"Love governs every Sense, every Affection, every Principle truckles to that more noble Passion."

— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)

Date: 1701

"Which are but tantalizing Amusements that debauch our Genius when they are once over, and Fatigue allows us a serious interval; with what regret do we reflect upon our Folly, in letting our Appetites govern our Reason, and like the Sirens Song charm us into Ruine."

— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)

Date: 1702

Reason has a law that may be transgressed by vile wretches

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

The "dull Remains of Fear" may be banished [from the mind?]

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

Reason has "an Empire of a nobler kind, / [her] regal Seat's in the celestial Mind"

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1702

Reason rules with a "God-like, and a Peaceful Hand"

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)

Date: 1710

"But LOVE slides in so secretly, that it is impossible to observe its Entry or its Progress; like a mask’d Enemy, it advanceth and seizeth all parts of the Soul, before it is discovered: When there is no means to be found to get him out, then he triumphs, and Wisdom and Reason must become his Sla...

— Tipper, John (1663–1713)