Date: 1709

"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: w. c. 1709, 1711

"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1714

In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."

— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)

Date: 1715-1720

"He turns the radiant Gift; and feeds his Mind / On all th'immortal Artist had design'd."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715-1720

"But now alas! to Death's cold Arms resign'd, / What Banquet but Revenge can glad my Mind?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1718

"Our faithful Censor laid asleep within, / We undisturb'd take down full Draughts of Sin."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1718

"And now the fair Ideas, which possest / Your Mind, by loose and vicious Thoughts opprest, / How will you wing your Way to Realms above, / And feast your Soul with Extasies of Love"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Date: 1724

"When sick'ning reason labours in the mind, / Advice is the soul's cordial--How shall I act?"

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1733

"There St. John mingles with my friendly Bowl, / The Feast of Reason and the Flow of Soul."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1743

"Our needful knowledge, like our needful food, / Unhedged, lies open in life's common field, / And bids all welcome to the vital feast."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)