"The Thinking Faculty ... Sighs to survey a Realm by right its own, / While Passion, [fierce co-heir] usurps the throne; / A second Nero, turbulent in sway, / His Pleasure, Noise; his Life one stormy Day; / Headstrong in love, and headstrong too in hate, / Resolv'd t'enslave the Mob, or sink the State; / Sad farce of pow'r, sad anarchy of things, / Where brutes are subjects, and where tyrants kings."
An Essay on Reason
5 entries in ESTC (1735, 1736).<br>
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Text from Walter Harte, <u>An Essay on Reason</u>, 3rd ed., corr. (London: Printed for J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1736). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200387664:2">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>An Essay on Reason</u> (London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1735). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T33338">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;