Date: 1768

Thoughts may "unbridled dare / Forward fly in wild career; /In their most impetuous course"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

"Let me, Reason, own thy force: / Though thou totter'st on thy throne, / Let me call thee still my own"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

A beloved may "o'ercome" a lover's "yielding heart" and fix "her empire there"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

The blind may be given the "better graces of the mind," such as "Genius, and Learning's Thews, and Judgement's light"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

"War smil'd, while triple Rage new steel'd his heart."

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

"This Winged Boy a gentle mind did bear, / As gentle as the beast [a lamb] which him up-bore, / Ne could he see th'unhappy drop a tear / But it would make his breast with pity sore, / And he himself would weep and grieve therefore."

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: w. 1766, 1768

"And reason fixed her empire in my breast."

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

Date: 1768

"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"

— Wynne, Edward (1734-1784)

Date: September 30, 1769?

"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Date: September 30, 1769

"A sage philosopher, to try / What pupil saw with reason's eye,"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)