Date: 1781
"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1781, 1791
"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1781
"Insulted Reason fled the grov'ling soul, / For Fear to guide, and visions to control: / But now, when Reason has assumed her throne, / She, in her turn, demands to reign alone"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1781
Reason may reject "all that lies beyond her view / And being judge, will be a witness too"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1782
"Till then, old red-nos'd Wilson's art / Will hold its empire o'er my heart."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Date: 1782
"Say! wilt Thou listen to his weaker strains, / Who pants to range round Fancy's rich domains; / To vindicate her empire, and disown / Proud System, seated on her injur'd throne?"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
"Let Critic Reason all her light diffuse / O'er the wide empire of this injur'd [Epic] Muse"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)
Date: 1782
One may "give an image all thine heart" but "Its empire is not hers, nor is it thine, / 'Tis God's just claim, prerogative divine"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
The soul may be "emancipated" and "unoppress'd"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"The mind attains beneath her [Freedom's] happy reign / The growth that nature meant she should attain."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)