Date: 1739

"Base Fear, the Laziness of Lust, gross Appetites, / These are the Ladders, and the groveling Footstool, / From whence the Tyrant rises on our Wrongs, / Secure and scepter'd in the Soul's Servility."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1739

"No---in the deep and deadly Damp of Dungeons / The Soul can rear her Sceptre, smile in Anguish, / And triumph o'er Oppression."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1739

"I am all / That's left to calm, to sooth his troubled Soul, / To Penitence, to Virtue; and perhaps / Restore the better Empire o'er his Mind, / True Seat of all Dominion."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1752

"Assist me, Furies, with your hellish Aid, / Nor let the Tyrant Conscience more invade; / Since I am stain'd with Blood, thro' Blood I'll wade."

— Gentleman, Francis (1728-1784)

Date: 1756

"Infernal Jealousy! thou foe to rest, / Despotic ruler in the female breast, / Of Love begot, unnatural, and dire, / Thou prey'st upon the vitals of thy fire."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1759

"Is human nature exil'd from thy breast?"

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)

Date: 1763

"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1764

"Why dancing is his ruling passion."

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)

Date: w. 1764, published 1820

"Yet, why repine? What, though by bonds confined, / Should bonds enslave the vigour of the mind?"

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1765

"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)