Date: 1771

"I conjure you--however severe the conflict, gratitude shall ever be the predominant passion of my soul--oh! fly this instant."

— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)

Date: 1771

"And, like my friend, a gen'rous aim pursues: / To combat vice in this licentious age, / To teach the pleasing moral from the stage, / The rising gusts of passion to controul"

— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)

Date: 1772

One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1772

"Oh! if my fate depends upon her looks, they must be iron hearts that can withstand 'em."

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1773

Injur'd Reason may "her lost rights again / Resume, and of the passions take the rein"

— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)

Date: 1773

Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex

— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

Date: 1773

"I confess Wilville raised emotions in my breast, I had till then been a stranger to"

— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)

Date: 1773

"Her mind, pure and spotless as new-drifted snow, cou'd not so soon be tainted."

— Hitchcock, Robert (d. 1809)

Date: 1774

"Oh, there's been precious doings with the Hearts of Steel"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

Date: 1774

"The nymph, who in my bosom reigns, / With such full force my heart enchains, / That nothing ever can impair / The empire she possesses there."

— Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814)