Date: 1739

"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

Date: 1746

Heaven and Fancy are "kindred powers"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1757

A "medal'd fact" or a "sculptur'd tale" may "On the reflecting mind prevail"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1764

"Forming a gloom, through which, to spleen-struck minds, / Religion, horror stamp'd, a passage find"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1771

Speaking one's mind is "a publishing of some Energie or Motion" of the soul

— Harris, James (1709-1780)

Date: 1778

"We never throw away our reason, by using it unnecessarily."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"It is by possession of this power, that the mind holds its empire----foor when this power is lost, we are said to be out of our senses--and then our acts can neither be good nor evil"

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1799

"My mind fastened upon the idea of this room with an unusual degree of intenseness."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"A sinking at my heart, as if it had been penetrated my a dagger seized me"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1818

A gentle soul may have no revenge in it and be whole in tenderness

— Keats, John (1795-1821)