Date: 1754
The "grim natives" of East-Brent were of "reason wholly void, whom instinct rules"
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1754
Reason may rule the mind and keep her God-like seat
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1755, 1773
"All the empire I had wanted / Then had been my shepherd's heart."
preview | full record— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: 1756
"Tho' Rome's fell Star malignant shone, / When good Eliza rul'd this State, / On English hearts she plac'd her throne, / And in their happiness her Fate, / While blacker than the Tempests of the North, / The Papal Tyrant sent his curses forth."
preview | full record— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777
"Ah Goddess! cease / Thus with terrific forms to rack my brain; / These horrid phantoms shake the throne of peace, / And Reason calls her boasted powers in vain.
preview | full record— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768
Horror may be a "tyrant of the throbbing breast"
preview | full record— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Date: 1759
"Then wilt Thou [God] in the saints reside, / And make their hearts Thy throne."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1760, 1761
"And Reason to herself alone is law."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: April 1761
"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)