Date: 1746

The mind may be eased by disclosing "Our flow of pleasures, and our stream of woes"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The mind may be tainted with sin

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As river's, by the sun's imbibing ray, / Are in summer quite exhal'd away" so to are "passions when confin'd to selfish love"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The soul may be poured forth in praise

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"We are "Tost on the surges--which our passions raise"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1753

Locke's "Logic Line the Depths of Reason found"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1753

Locke's "guiding Hand th'ideal Blank explores, / And opens wide the Senses' various Doors, / Thro' which the thronging Thoughts their Passage find, / In social Tribes, and stock the peopled Mind."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1754

Soft Repose may glide smooth through the heart, calm as a stream

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1765

""Unwise, who, tossing on the watery way, / All to the storm th'unfetter'd sail devolve; / Man more unwise resigns the mental sway, / Born headlong on by passion's keen resolve."

— Beattie, James (1735-1803)