Date: 1761

"Give me this Fury to asswage / One Drop, from some yet moist'ned Bowl / To cool the Fever in my Soul!"

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1766

"I must believe you, Emily; there is a charm in truth, that strikes upon the mind, like light upon our eyes"

— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)

Date: 1767

"She hath buried my heart in sorrow, and engraven dishonour on the tomb of her ancestors"

— Hull, Thomas (1728-1808); Tuke, Sir Samuel (d. 1624)

Date: 1769

Cares may "torment my tortur'd mind, / Leaving their rugged tracts behind"

— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)

Date: 1770

A passion may blind the soul

— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)

Date: 1773

Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex

— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

Date: 1775

The mind may be "weak and sickly"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: 1775

One's thought may ache at someone

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: 1775

The imagination in its fullest enjoyments becomes suspicious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has created or adopted

— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)

Date: 1775

"If there be but one vicious mind in the Set, 'twill spread like a contagion--the action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movement of the jigg--their quivering, warm-breath'd sighs impregnate the very air--the atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous spark darts thro' every l...

— Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)