Date: [1731?] 1734

"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"The blood tempestuous, pours a flushing wave" and "With raging swell alternate pantings rise"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

[Allegories of taste, smell, sound, and vision.]

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

" Thro' nature traffick on, from pole to pole, / And stamp new worlds on thy dilated soul"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"'O why of these thy bounteous goods bereft, / 'And only to interior Reason left?"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Whence either pulmonary lobe expires, / And all the interior subtile breath retires; / Subsiding lungs[6] their labouring vessels press, / Affected mutual with severe distress, / While towards the left their confluent torrents gush, / And on the heart's sinister cavern rush;"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)