Date: 1734-1735

"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1736

"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736, 1743

"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1736, 1743

"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1737

"Lend me the plaint, which, to the lonely main, / With memory conversing, you will pour, / As on the pebbled shore you, pensive, stray"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)