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: 1700
One cannot find "A throne so soft as in a woman's mind"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1700, 1717
"This Helenus to great AEneas told, / Which I retain, e'er since in other Mould: / My Soul was cloath'd; and now rejoice to view / My Country Walls rebuilt, and Troy reviv'd anew, / Rais'd by the fall: Decreed by Loss to Gain; / Enslav'd but to be free, and conquer'd but to reign."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1706 [1707]
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
preview | full record— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Date: 1707, 1710
"So can the pow'rful Grape our Reason cheat, / And o'er our giddy Fancy reign."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1708
"And he thought that Conversation did drive away evil Thoughts, and banish'd that Diversity of Opinions which offer'd themselves to his Mind, and kept him from the Suggestions of evil Thoughts."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
"The Mind no nobler Wisdom can attain, / Than to inspect and study all the Man: / His awful Looks confess the Race Divine; / In him the Beauties of the Godhead shine: / With Majesty he fills great Reason's Throne, / The Subject World their rightful Monarch own."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1710 [1719, 1729]
The soul may become "Oblig'd the subject Senses to obey, / And only range, where they direct the Way"
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1712, 1736
One may be a Lord but in Title, a vassal in Effect, "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct"
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)