Date: September 27, 1746

"Painful reflection! poyson to my mind!"

— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)

Date: 1752

"Worse than the other--Whom, thus robb'd of Pow'r. / His former Passions fatally devour!"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1752

"Well! does that make you wise, / Or open on your Follies, Reason's Eyes!"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1757-9

"To Gold yields Silver, and to Virtue Gold, / If Reason's Hand th'impartial Balance hold."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

Date: 1759, 1761

"To her mind's eye a thousand ghosts appear, / The foolish apparitions of her fear."

— Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777); Menander (342-291 B.C.)

Date: 1761, 1790

"Our reason judges better than our eyes"

— Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787); Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1706-1760)

Date: 1761

"The design of nature is therefore evidently to strengthen the body, before the mind is exercised."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

Date: 1761

"You pleasantly asked me once, if souls were of a different sex. No, my dear, the soul is of no sex; but its affections make that distinction, and you begin to be too sensible of it."

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

Date: 1762

"'Rest thou,' I said, 'behind my shield; rest in peace, thou beam of light! the gloomy chief of Sora will fly, if Fingal's arm is like his soul."

— Ossian; Macpherson, James (1736-1796)

Date: 1769

Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"

— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)