Date: 1739

In prelapsarian times "the body, passive slave," did not dare "controul / The sov'reign mandates of the ruling soul"

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

Date: 1739

"The darkling soul scarce feels a glimm'ring ray, /Shrouded in sense from her immortal day"

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

Date: 1739

"Passions enslave, and servile cares oppress"

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

Date: 1739

"Fraud, rapine, murder, guilt's long horrid train, / Distracted nature's anarchy maintain."

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

Date: 1739

"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"

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

Date: 1739

Dictates have "his care on ev'ry mind impress'd, / The conscious seals the hand of Heav'n attest!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"He finds thy soft impression touch his breast, / He feels the God, and owns him unconfess'd!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"But come ye purer souls from dross refin'd, / The blameless heart and uncorrupted mind!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1739

"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."

— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)

Date: 1739

"Ask ye what Law their conq'ring Cause confess'd? / Great Nature's Law, the Law within the Breast, / Form'd by no Art, and to no Sect confin'd, / But stamp'd by Heav'n upon th' unletter'd Mind."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)