Date: 1754

"How you wound my soul by the supposition!"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: January, 1754; 1791

"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1754

"I may with the same Naïvité remove the Veil from my mental as well as personal Imperfections; and expose them naked to the World."

— Hay, William (1695-1755)

Date: 1754

"'Orandum est', let us pray, says Juvenal, 'ut sit mens sana in corpore sano', for a sound Mind in a healthy Body; and every deformed Person should add this Petition, 'ut sit mens recta in corpore curvo', for an upright Mind in a crooked one."

— Hay, William (1695-1755)

Date: 1754, 1762

"By stronger contagion, the popular affections were communicated from breast to breast, in this place of general rendezvous and society."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1754

"For [Fancy], / The blue ethereal Arch expands; her Table / Spread out with all the Dainties of the Sky, / Imagination's rich Regale."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1755

God himself is the soul's eternal food

— Davies [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Thou sun of this great world both eye and soul

— Milton [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Affections may seem benumbed or may take take fire

— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]