Date: 1798

"Women have a frame of body more delicate and susceptible of impression than men, and, in proportion as they receive a less intellectual education, are more unreservedly under the empire of feeling."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1798

"Wounded affection, wounded pride, all those principles which hold absolute empire in the purest and loftiest minds, urged her to still further experiments to recover her influence, and to a still more poignant desparation, long after reason would have directed her to desist, and resolutely call ...

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1798

"But a connection more memorable originated about this time, between Mary and a person of her own sex, for whom she contracted a friendship so fervent, as for years to have constituted the ruling passion of her mind."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

Date: 1798

"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

Date: 1798

"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1801

"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1801

A strenuous mind may have "master passions" that may be bred by nature or nurtured by indulgence

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

A lover's heart may be one's throne

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

Date: 1801

Doubts and fears may "Contend for empire and distract the mind"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

Date: 1801

One may fix his empire "o'er the soul of man"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)