Date: 1733-4

"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"She but removes weak passions for the strong: / So, when small humors gather to a gout, / The doctor fancies he has driv'n them out."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1734 [1735?]

"Error that great Distemper of the Mind, / Hard to be cur'd, because 'tis hard to find; / So mixt and blended with our very Frame, / It lurks secure, and borrows Reason's Name."

— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)

Date: 1734, 1753

"Souls have no sexes; and if minds agree, / Parting is dying, to set fancy free."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1734

"Something as dim to our internal view, / Is thus, perhaps, the cause of most we do."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735

"The Bard whom pilf'red Pastorels renown, / Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, / Just writes to make his barrenness appear, / And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1735

"What is the blooming Tincture of a Skin, / To Peace of Mind? To Harmony within?"

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1735, 1745

"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1736

"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)

"Curst with such souls of base alloy, / As can possess, but not enjoy, / Debarr'd the pleasure to impart / By av'rice, sphincter of the heart, / Who wealth, hard earn'd by guilty cares, / Bequeath untouch'd to thankless heirs."

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)