Date: 1745

"But what is most dishonourable of all is, for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind. Because that strength of reason and understanding he is master of gives him a great advantage for the government of his passions."

— Mason, John (1706-1763)

Date: 1745

"And therefore his suffering himself notwithstanding to be governed by them, shows that he hath too much neglected or misapplied his natural talent, and willingly submitted to the tyranny of those lusts and passions, over which nature had furnished him with abilities to have secured an easy conqu...

— Mason, John (1706-1763)

Date: 1745

"As in the humours of the body, so in the vices of the mind, there is one predominant which has an ascendant over us, and leads and governs us."

— Mason, John (1706-1763)

Date: 1746

Imagination may "Bring what ideas she can find / To the great storehouse of the Mind, / Where Judgement ever sits serene, / To rule the vague and sportive queen"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1746

"For as those Things which affect our Senses, are always esteem'd the surest and most infallible Test of every Doctrine; so a more than common Regard to those is necessary in our Attempts for the Advancement of Medicine; which as it is only conversible with sensible Bodies, ought not to admit any...

— Willan, Robert (fl. 1746-1757)

Date: 1746, 1753

"Heart, voice, mein, visage, all, pay love their aid, / Cupid exacts more strict alliance made; / 'Twixt the mind's states, than, once, 'twixt Europe's, he, / Who bound all princes--yet, left none unfree."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1747

"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controuls, / The warring Passions, and informs our Souls, / Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blest, / Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast; / While soft Ideas rising in the Mind, / Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find, / And to his Sway the ...

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1747

"VENUS, Queen of tender Fires, / Pleasing Pains, and soft Desires; / Sweet Enslaver of the Heart, / Here thy gentle Aid impart."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1747

"Hither beauteous Goddess move, / Leave a while th' Idalian Grove; / Once more to my transported Breast, / Come a mild, a grateful Guest; / There confirm thy pleasing Reign, / Free from Cares, and free from Pain."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1747

"No longer Hope and Fear maintain / Within your Breast a doubtful Reign."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)