Date: 1720
"His Fancy still awake; the roving Guest / Usurps the Throne of Reason in his Breast: / Forms great Ideas, and religious Schemes, / A busy mime, and floats in golden Dreams."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"How does this Tyrant lord it in thy Mind? / What Symptoms of his Empire do'st thou find?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1723
"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1713, 1729
Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"
preview | full record— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
Date: 1732
"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"
preview | full record— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)
Date: 1733
"Swell'd with vain Learning, vainer Man conceives, / That 'tis with him the bright Minerva lives; / That she descends to dwell with him alone, / And in his Breast erects her starry Throne."
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: 1733
Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)
Date: [1731?] 1734
"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
preview | full record— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)
Date: 1736, 1743
"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: 1747
"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"
preview | full record— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)