Date: 1752, 1791
"Oft thro' my eyes my soul has flown, / And wanton'd on that iv'ry throne [Ethelinda's breast]"
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: June, 1756
"But soul-rejoicing health again returns, / The blood meanders gentle in each vein, / The lamp of life renew'd with vigour burns, / And exil'd reason takes her seat again-- / Brisk leaps the heart, the mind's at large once more, / To love, to praise, to bless, to wonder and adore."
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Date: 1760, 1761
"And Reason to herself alone is law."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: April 1761
"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"
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Date: 1762, 1781
"Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command, / And rules each Sense with Fancy's magic Wand."
preview | full record— Keate, George (1729-1797)
Date: 1762-3
"By tyrants awed, who never find / The passage to their people's mind; / To whom the joy was never known / Of planting in the heart their throne."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"Within the brain's most secret cells / A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells, / Of sovereign power, whom, one and all, / With common voice, we Reason call."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"The senses all must homage pay; / Hither they all must tribute bring, / And prostrate fall before their king."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Date: 1762-3
"Whatever unto them is brought / Is carried on the wings of thought / Before his throne, where, in full state, / He on their merits holds debate, / Examines, cross-examines, weighs / Their right to censure or to praise."
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Date: 1762-3
"O bow, bow all at Fancy's throne, / Whose power could make so vile an elf / With patience bear that thing himself."
preview | full record— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)