Date: 1704, 1716

"My Body swoln, and bloated as thy Mind."

— Anonymous

Date: 1707

"Let others on the Senses Surface play, / And purchase fleeting Honours of a Day; / Your Empire's lasting, for the Mind's your Throne, / And ev'ry Hour you gain upon Renown."

— Anonymous

Date: 1716

"You think, perhaps, his dull Capacity, / In flight of Reason, cannot soar so high, / As to confirm him in his Sophistry."

— Anonymous

Date: 1716

"Led on by Reason, that blind Guide o'th'Mind. / Thro Labyrinths of Thought, and envious Ways, / It will conduct you to the fatal Place, / And leave you there."

— Anonymous

Date: 1716

"O then, from such Idolatry refrain, To worship the Chimeras of your Brain."

— Anonymous

Date: 1716

"As by Rebellion Subjects oft become / Lords of their Monarch, and pronounce his Doom: / So Reason, to your wicked Nature join'd, / Rebels 'gainst Faith, whose Slave it was design'd."

— Anonymous

Date: 1731

"Say to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Mind's fair Mirror play."

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

Date: 1731

"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripened Beams of intellectual Day"?

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

Date: 1731

"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought / That teems to Birth, and glitters into Thought"?

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

Date: 1731

Say "How Fancy ev'ry Shape puts on, / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence that ever shining Train / That Memory or Experience shows."

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)