Date: 1733, 1777

"Instead of hallow'd hill, or vocal vale, / Or stream, sweet-echoing to the tuneful tale; / Damp dens confin'd, or barren desarts spread, / Which spectres haunted, and the muses fled; / Ruins in pensive emblem seem'd to rise, / And all was dark, or wild, to Fancy's eyes."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1733-4

"It is therefore in the Anatomy of the Mind as in that of the Body; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which will for ever escape our observation."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"She but removes weak passions for the strong: / So, when small humors gather to a gout, / The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Error that great Distemper of the Mind, / Hard to be cur'd, because 'tis hard to find; / So mixt and blended with our very Frame, / It lurks secure, and borrows Reason's Name."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Souls have no sexes; and if minds agree, / Parting is dying, to set fancy free."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734

"Something as dim to our internal view, / Is thus, perhaps, the cause of most we do."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735

"The Bard whom pilf'red Pastorels renown, / Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, / Just writes to make his barrenness appear, / And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735

"What is the blooming Tincture of a Skin, / To Peace of Mind? To Harmony within?"

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1735, 1745

"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)