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: 1746, 1749

"For Peace and War succeed by Turns in Love, / And while tempestuous these Emotions roll, / And float with blind Disorder in the Soul."

— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)

Date: 1747

Johnson's dictionary may "awaken to the care of purer diction some men of genius, whose attention to argument makes them negligent of style, or whose rapid imagination, like the Peruvian torrents, when it brings down gold, mingles it with sand."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1748

"My bosom had been hitherto a stranger to such a flood of joy as now rushed upon it: My faculties were overborn by the tide"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

Date: 1747-8

"[W]hen I heard her sentiments on two or three subjects, and took notice of that searching eye, darting into the very inmost cells of our frothy brains, by my faith, it made me look about me."

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