Date: 1697

"You compare Cogitation in a Spirit, to Motion in a Body, and so Cessation from Thought in a a Spirit, must answer to Rest in a Body"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

The soul may sleep

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1697

"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

Date: 1733

The mind's emblem may be marked on the body

Date: 1743

The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

The heart may bleed

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1764, 1773

"But 'tis not Gomez, 'tis not he whose heart / Is crusted o'er with dross, whose callous mind / Is senseless as his gold."

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

Date: 1773

"[Y]et so much more is the understanding blinded, when once the fancy is captivated, that it seems a desperate undertaking to convince a girl in love that she has mistaken the character of the man she prefers."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Date: 1773

"The resentment which, instead of being expressed, is nursed in secret, and continually aggravated by the imagination, will, in time, become the ruling passion; and then, how horrible must be his case, whose kind and pleasurable affections are all swallowed up by the tormenting as well as detesta...

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)