Date: 1766

"Far beyond the bonds of meaning / Fancy flies, a Fairy queen!"

— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)

Date: 1763, 1767

"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1763, 1767

"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1763, 1767

"Where shape, and air, and symmetry divine, / And rays reflected from the source of thought, / That beam intuitive throughout the eye, / The speaking eye, that window of the mind."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1763, 1767

"And lo a flourish'd portico enrich'd, / That wears th'embroidery of the Queen it guards, / Where Fancy on her vernal throne presides / O'er all the colours of the painted year, / That charm th'affections, and deceive the eye."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1769

"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1771

"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"

— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)

Date: 1774

"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1774

"The pupil of impulse, it [his heart] forced him along, / His conduct still right, with his argument wrong; / Still aiming at honour, yet fearing to roam, / The coachman was tipsy, the chariot drove home."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

Date: 1774

"Reason's Sovereign-Rule" may be denied (by Faith)

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)