Date: 1720

"Poetry is called the image of the mind, / In mine my soul and body both are joined."

— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)

Date: 1724, 1756

"Consult the native Dictates of thy Soul; / And if thou there discern the Maker's Hand, / Confess his Care, resign to his Command."

— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Restless, on paper, we our vows repeat, / And pour our souls out, on the missive sheet"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1728

"While Love, recording with a keener Dart, / Engrav'd each Token deeper on my Heart!"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1733

"[M]eeting virtues" may be "perfectly imprest / On sacred Sheets, in thy Ethereal Breast"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733-1735

"Various rude Arts the untaught Ancients knew / To fix Ideas e'er they fled away, / And Images of Thought to Sight convey. / Brass, Wax, or Wood the Characters retain'd, / Some liv'd on Slates, and some the Canvas stain'd; / Some trac'd in Iv'ry, or engrav'd on Stone, / Or sunk in Clay, e're Bi...

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1733

"My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, / Verse-man or Prose-man, term me which you will."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1736, 1743

In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: February 1738

One may be " In State most desponding, by the Light of a Taper, / With Thoughts dull and dark as my Wax, or my Paper"

— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)