Date: 1790

Custom "wars with Wit for Empire o'er the mind / Fights to the last unknowing how to yield, / And inch by inch disputes the mental field"

— Williams, John [pseud. Anthony Pasquin] (1754-1818)

Date: 1790

"But while those ancient philosophers endeavoured in this manner to suggest every consideration which could, as Milton says, arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience, as with triple steel; they, at the same time, laboured above all to convince their followers that there neither was nor could...

— Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Date: 1791

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

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

The mind may be milky

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

The mind may be rent as when two adverse winds vex and blow the sable flood

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

Gods are "swift as the traveller's thought"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

"He spake, and at his words grief like a cloud / Involved the mind of Hector dark around"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

One may have a "milky mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

The mind may feel "Terrour and consternation"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1791

One may bear a "milky mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)