Date: 1735

"Here every Error of the lawless Mind, / The Monsters of distemper'd Thought we find."

— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Just so supreme, unmated, and alone, / The Soul assumes her intellectual throne"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Around their queen attendant spirits watch, / Each rising thought with prompt observance catch, / The tidings of internal passion spread, / And thro' each part the swift contagion shed"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

The mind "speeds her ministry abroad, / And rules obedient matter with a nod" as "The obsequious mass beneath her influence yields, /And even her will the unwieldy fabric wields"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Tho' winding paths" the soul's "sprightly envoys fly, / Or watchful in the frontier senses lie"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1735, 1792

"Such haply by that Côon artist known, / Seated apparent queen on Fancy's throne; / From thence thy shape his happy canvas blest, / And colours dipt in heaven thy heavenly form confest"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Date: 1736, 1743

"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1736

"One there was, over whose Heart her Beauty still retain'd its Empire; he was call'd Ochihatou, and had, for many Years, ruled every thing in Hypotofa, tho' Oeros, the King thereof, was living; but, as he had so great a Share in the Adventures of Eovaai, it's proper to give a more particular Acco...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"'Tis true, the Desire of Riches seem'd the ruling and universal Passion among them; but then, they sought not the Gratification by mean Arts, or Projects destructive to their Fellow-Citizens, or shameful to their Country, but by honest Care, and painful Labour; by adhering strictly to their Prom...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1736

"For suppose we could find a Hero, in whom all the Virtues met, and little inferior to the Celestial Genii, he certainly would both merit and possess a Throne in every honest Heart."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)