Date: 1739

"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1739

"Faint is the lesson reason's rules impart: / [Drama] pours it strong and instant through the heart"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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: 1739

A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"

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

Date: January 1739

"Let us chace our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions which have appeared in that narrow compass."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1739

Dictates have "his care on ev'ry mind impress'd, / The conscious seals the hand of Heav'n attest!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"May all English Lads, like you, Boys, / Prove on Shore true Hearts of Gold; / To their King and Country true"

— Phillips, Edward (b. 1708/9)

Date: 1739

"Nor old Sir H***s, whose Soul is plung'd in Oar, / That Gold can't shut the Grave against Fourscore. "

— Miller, James (1704-1744)