Date: 1725
"Stoop to the Gen'rous, if you seek Controll; / Vertue will fix your Empire on his Soul"
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1725
"When Friendship engraves the Image of Love, 'tis true, she proceeds by slow Degrees, But forms each Feature with the deepest Art, / And carves a lasting Image on the Heart."
preview | full record— Odingsells, Gabriel (1690-1734)
Date: 1725
A child may be governed Reason and her Father, unless she (like the rest of the "ungovernable Sex") think her own will her best adviser
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1725
Freezing blood may congeal around a cold heart
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
As when clouds disperse and restore the day, so may a "sudden flash" rush on the soul
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
A poet shouldn't unfurl his sails in a gale of ungovernable rage
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
"Rais'd on the noble prospect of the mind, / From that proud eminence they view mankind"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1725
In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"
preview | full record— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Date: 1780?
"Lust is the unbridled Horse of the Soul that has thrown its Rider."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)