Date: 1729

It is by the senses that "the Ideas of external sensible Objects are first conveyed into the Imagination; and Reason or the pure Intellect ... operates upon those Ideas, and upon them, Only after they are so lodged in that common Receptacle"

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1730

"Enlarge the Purlieu of my narrow Mind: / In Colours, plain, expose to Reason's Eye, / What, yet, to Reason Nature does deny"

— Smedley, Jonathan (1671-1729)

Date: 1731

Reason is a weak "viceroy" whose throne may be usurped by Custom

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Date: 1731

"No longer Reason could her Empire boast, / But in the soft Astonishment was lost"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

Date: 1731

Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind

— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)

Date: 1733

The mind may be "an empty void"

— Browne, Peter (d. 1735)

Date: 1733

"To explain how the mind or soul of man simply sees is one thing, and belongs to philosophy."

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1735

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

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735

"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

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

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)