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: 1734

"My free-born thoughts I'll not confine, / Though all Parnassus could be mine."

— Anonymous

Date: 1735

"He mark'd the Bounds 'tween Brutes and Men, / And KNOW THY SELF made known, / Dark Monsters fled before his Pen, / While Fancy's Mirror shone."

— Anonymous

Date: 1735

"In vain my weeping eyes thy features traced / (And features speak the passions of the mind)".

— Anonymous

Date: [1738], 1758

"Consult your mind, consult your glass, / Each charm of sense and youth; / Then own, who changes is an ass, / Nor wonder at my truth."

— Anonymous

Date: December 9-11, 1766

"Fair truth shall chase th' unreal Forms away; / And Reason's piercing Beam restore the Day."

— Anonymous

Date: 1773

"Think'st thou, had Fancy's mirror struck his sight, / And brought thy too degenerate deeds to light; / Had shewn thee curst to such a vicious race, / Whose very breath contaminates the place: / How would his manly heart with grief have died / T'have seen this fatal barrier to his pride?"

— Anonymous

Date: 1790

"I shall, perhaps, deserve censure for concealing a name which belongs to so much excellence, but I fear to offend the delicacy of your nature; true merit is ever modest, and your mind, like the sensitive plant at the touch, would shrink from the voice of public celebrity."

— Anonymous

Date: 1790

"Behold lovely Westmorland leads the gay throng, / Herself by the graces led calmly along; / With a bosom of innocence easily hit / By the nice ball of humour or arrow of wit; / With a mind which when tragical sorrows appear / Rushes up to her eye, and descends in a tear."

— Anonymous