Date: 1741

"Maronides had got the first hundred Lines of Virgil's 'Æneis' printed upon his Memory so perfectly, that he knew not only the Order and Number of every Verse from one to a hundred in Perfection, but the Order and Number of every Word in each Verse also."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1741

"It is also by this Association of Ideas that we may better imprint any new Idea upon the Memory by joining with it some Circumstance of the Time, Place, Company, &c. wherein we first observed, heard or learnt it."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1741

"Let every thing we desire to remember be fairly and distinctly written and divided into Periods, with large Characters in the Beginning; for by this Means we shall the more readily imprint the Matter and Words on our Minds, and recollect them with a Glance, the more remarkable the Writi...

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1741

"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1741

" The universal pardon's past; / O seal it on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1741

"Thy long-suffering is salvation, / Not to seal souls for hell, / Not for man's damnation"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1741

"My Soul is cover'd o'er with Shame, / My Heart a Cage of Birds unclean."

— Cennick, John (1718-1755)

Date: 1742

"seems the Counterpart by Heav'n design'd / A Symbol and a Warning to Mankind: / As at some Door we find hung out a Sign, / Type of the Monster to be found within"

— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)

Date: 1738, 1742

"Ye Princes by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / Who hear your Subjects all around complain / Of Wrongs, repeated Wrongs, on Land and Main, / While all your Counsels are yourselves to please, / And while ye batten in inglorious Ease, / 'Tis Virtue only can...

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1738, 1742

"See what obnoxious Vices still remain, / Which there's no Law, no Bridle, to restrain."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)