Date: 1719-1720, 1725

"It was plain that the Passion with which Ciamara was animated, sprung not from this last Source; she had seen the charming Count, was taken with his Beauty, and wish'd no farther than to possess his lovely Person, his Mind was the least of her Thoughts, for had she the least Ambition to reign th...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1719-1720, 1725

"Oh Heaven! cry'd the transported Charlotta, all you have done, or even can do of Unkindness, is by one tender Word made full amends for; see at your Feet (continued she, falling on her Knees) thus in this humble Posture, which best becomes my prostrate Soul, I beg you to accept the Pardon which ...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: w. 1714, 1719, 1728

"While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd, / Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind"

— Sewell, George (1690-1726)

Date: 1719

"I was not so much surpriz'd with the Lightning, as I was with a Thought which darted into my Mind as swift as the Lightning it self: O my Powder!"

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

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: 1720

The eyes speak the mind's "the lover's mind"

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

Date: 1720

"Large is my forehead made, not wond'rous fair, / But room enough for all the Muses there."

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

Date: 1720

"Ah! Wissin, had thy Art been so refin'd, / As with their Beauty to have drawn their Mind."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1720

Justice, the "Queen of Virtues" may poize the mind in "equal balance" so that "All different Graces soon will enter, / Like Lines concurrent to their Center"

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1720

"The Goths were not so barbarous a Race / As the grim Rusticks of this motly Place; / Of Reason void, and Thought, whom Int'rest rules, / Yet will be Knaves tho' Nature meant them Fools."

— Diaper, William (1686-1717)