Date: 1743
Dullness "rul'd, in native Anarchy, the mind"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of Reason's assuming the rule of the Passions"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
Dullness in the "absence of Reason," tho' she cannot regulate the Passions like Reason, yet blunts and deadens their Vigour, and, indeed, produces some of the good effects"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1747
"And where's the boasted liberty of man? / Chang'd are his lords indeed; and tyrant Lust / Usurps the just supremacy of Heav'n."
preview | full record— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)
Date: 1766, 1806
"Too fatal proof! since thou, with av'rice fraught, / Didst basely urge (ah! shun the wounding thought!) / That tender circumstance--reveal it not, / Lest torn with rage I curse my fated lot: / Lest startled Reason abdicate her reign, / And Madness revel in this heated brain."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1770, 1806
"Nor pride nor fickleness could claim / The empire of his mind."
preview | full record— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)
Date: 1789
"A passion like mine, makes the heart rebellious--it will love on--it will hope, in spite of the rules cold reason dictates"
preview | full record— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)