Date: 1729

"Induced at last, by scarce perceived degrees, / Sapping the very frame of government, / And life, a total dissolution comes; / Sloth, ignorance, dejection, flattery, fear."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1729

"Then the good easy man, whom reason rules; / Rouz'd by bold insult, and injurious rage, / With sharp, and sudden check, th' astonish'd sons / Of violence confounds; firm as his cause, / His bolder heart; in awful justice clad; / His eyes effulging a peculiar fire: / And, as he charges thro' the ...

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1729

"Oh, let not then waste luxury impair / That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves, / And your own proper happiness creates!"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1732

The fancy may own its errors and humbly bow to Reason

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

One may "win and hold the Conquest of a Mind"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

"The Force of Modulated Sound, .... tunes the Heart at ev'ry Turn"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

"With ev'ry Moment [Music] gives new Passions Birth"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

As music "certain Conquest makes, the Savage Soul refines"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

"Each Line's a Transcript of his Mind!"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

"My Sight, will keep her in my Mind, / Preserve the deep Impression made,"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)