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)
Date: 1782
"But what is man in his own proud esteem? / Hear him, himself the poet and the theme: / A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, / His mind his kingdom, and his will his law, / Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes, / Supreme on Earth and worthy of the skies, / Strength in his heart, dominion in...
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Date: 1783
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1783, 1838
"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
If Reason rule us, it "bids us strive to raise / Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1783, 1838
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: w. 1769, 1784
"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1784, 1787
Temperate thought may cool glowing passions and "bow the swelling heart to reason's rule"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)