Date: 1726

"I know in descriptions of this nature the scenes are generally supposed to grow out of the author's imagination, and if they are not charming in all their parts, the reader never imputes it to the want of sun or soil, but to the barrenness of invention"

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1726

"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1726

"To remember where he enters in the succession, they only consider in what part of the cabinet he lies; and by runinng over in their thoughts such a particular drawer, will give you an account of all the remarkable parts of his reign."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1728

For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1728

Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1728, 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1729

"Souls, of your Stamp, can pity and protect, / And gather Fame from other Men's Neglect"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1729

"So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1729

"Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays, / To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze: / But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne, / And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on."

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1730

"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"

— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)