Date: 1730

"Were I able to dress up several thoughts of a serious nature, which have made great impressions on my mind during a long fit of sickness, they might not be an improper entertainment for that occasion."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1730

"The gracious Author of our Being hath therefore so formed us, that we are capable of many pleasing sensations and reflections, and meet with so many amusements and solicitudes, as divert our thoughts from dwelling upon an evil, which by reason of its seeming distance, makes but languid impressio...

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1734

"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1735, 1745

"Mean while, What think'st thou? Was the human Soul, / Which by a transient Glance from Pole to Pole / Travels more swift than Light, to Heav'n sublime / Can fly, descend to Hell, six fleeting Time, / The Past and Future to the Present join, / And knows no Bounds which can Its Range confine,...

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1735, 1745

The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1735, 1745

"And Fancy's Fire with Judgment's Temper cools."

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1735, 1745

"Only to trifle sev'nty Years away / In this frail Flesh, this Tenement of Clay, / In Doubt, in Fear, in Sorrow, in Despair, / Then cease to be, and vanish into Air?"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1735, 1745

"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1736

Love and Reason may make war within one's breast

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)

Date: 1732, 1736

Reason may over-rule fancy

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)