Date: 1725

"I will give you the saddest Account you have ever yet been entertain'd with; but you must wrap your Heart in a Case of Adamant, or it will melt away in the hearing of it."

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725

"So delicate's the Texture of her Brain, / We wish it less refin'd, and nearer Man; / For weak's the Clock with over-curious Springs, / And frail the Voice that too divinely sings"

— Sterling, James

Date: 1725-6

"And sweet discourse [is] the banquet of the mind."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"To whom the Queen, (whilst yet her pensive mind / Was in the silent gates of sleep confin'd) / O sister, to my soul for ever dear, / Why this first visit to reprove my fear?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"A willing Goddess, and immortal life, / Might banish from thy mind an absent wife."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"This is spoken with too great severity: it is necessary to relieve the mind of the reader sometimes with gayer scenes, that it may proceed with a fresh appetite to the succeeding entertainment."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"The moral then of these fables of Alcinous is, that a constant series of happiness intoxicates the mind, and that moderation is often learn'd in the school of adversity."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"The Reader may be pleas'd to observe, that the Poet has here given the reins to his fancy, and run out into a luxuriant description of Ægusa and Sicily."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Thrice thro' my arms she slipt like empty wind' [...] This passage plainly shews that the vehicles of the departed were believ'd by the Antients to be of an aerial substance, and retain nothing of corporeal grossness"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Will martial flames for ever fire thy mind, / And never, never be to Heav'n resign'd?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.