Date: 1729

"Oh, let not then waste luxury impair / That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves, / And your own proper happiness creates!"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1729

"In thy fond Heart proud Conquest vainly reigns, / And Lust of lawless Pow'r thy Bosom stains"

— Harvey, John (fl.1729)

Date: 1729

"'Their Countrey's Love a gen'rous Warmth imparts, / 'Arms their intrepid Hands, and steels their Hearts."

— Harvey, John (fl.1729)

Date: 1729

"'Let those soft Ties of Life, your better Part, / 'String ev'ry Nerve, and steel each Hero's Heart"

— Harvey, John (fl.1729)

Date: 1713, 1729

Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"

— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)

Date: 1729

"In my mind's Eye, I still enjoy thee here; / Still hold thee in my Heart, and in my Ear."

— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)

Date: 1730

"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"

— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)

Date: 1730, 1731

"But now, my Muse, the arduous Task engage, / And show the Charming Figure on the Stage, / Describe her Look, her Action, Voice and Mein, / The gay Coquette, soft Maid, or haughty Queen, / So bright she [Mrs. Oldfield] shone in every different Part, / She gain'd despotick Empire o'er the Heart, /...

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1730

"In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try / The Ocean of Eternity, / Unfathom'd, without Shore."

— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)

Date: 1730

"Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain, / That renders all the Avenues / Of Truth, that in itself is plain, / Impervious and abstruse, / Perplex'd and intricate, / By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate."

— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)