Date: 1701
"My Reason's conquer'd by more powerful Love, / Who rules as Tyrant in my captiv'd Breast."
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1705
"Love is th' unlimited Passion of the Mind, it ranges unconfin'd by Law or Reason"
preview | full record— Johnson, Charles (1679-1748); Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Date: 1739
Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1714, 1739
Two woman may "with equal Ardor assure [themselves] of the Empire of a [man's] heart
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"All the Revolutions that inhuman Fortune can expose us to, the Loss of Grandeur, Persecutions, the Poison of Envy, and the Insults of Hatred, have nothing in 'em but what the Resolutions of a Mind where Reason has the least Rule, can easily defy."
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
"This Empire which Reason holds over the Senses, does not make us renounce the Sweets of Praise"
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)
Date: 1739
A woman may have one heart in subjection to her empire
preview | full record— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)