Date: 1707, 1710

"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."

— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)

Date: 1791

The mind may be oppress'd with "weight of care"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

One may be as graceful in port and noble in stature as one is in mind discrete

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

One may be of "drowsy mind obtuse"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)