Date: 1743

"The native Anarchy of the mind is that state which precedes the time of reason's assuming the rule of the Passions."

— Warburton, William (1698-1779)

Date: October 20, 1752

It is bad manners for Richardson's heroines to "declare all they think [since] fig leaves are necessary for our minds as our bodies."

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

Date: 1740

For a wise and virtuous king "Reason alone his upright judgement guides"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1740

Death is an "iron-hearted, and of cruel soul, / Brasen his breast, nor can he brook controul, / To whom, and ne'er return, all mortals go, / And even to immortal gods a foe"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

Princes may be "by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / [etc.]"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

"[O]bnoxious Vices still remain, / Which there's no Law, no Bridle, to restrain"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

A prince may build his empire "in the People's Heart"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

Judgement may assume "her Seat, the Mind"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)