Date: 1741

"He knew, that vain was ev'ry Art, design'd / To check the Freedom of the humane Will; / That Restraints could shackle up the Mind, / Which, self-determin'd, kept her Empire still."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"Love, tho' he fetter'd,--led me not aside, / And Virgin Chastity maintain'd its Part; / Tho' Choice inthron'd him in my conscious Breast."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"Lord of my Wishes, tho' he reign'd confest / His Empire was still bounded by the Mind / In me, unblemish'd Honour lent the Fire / The mutual Flame to feed,--I thought should ne'er expire."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

A charmer may gain "a mental Empire" "And still a Queen thro' every bosom reign"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"Nor durst he say that ought he saw was wrong, / For Fear, his master Passion, ty'd his Tongue."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"If not your wife, let reason's rule persuade; / Name but my fault, amends shall soon be made."

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1745

"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)

Date: 1745

"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)