Date: 1739

"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."

— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)

Date: October, 1739

"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."

— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)

Date: October, 1739

"That last best effort of [Science's] skill, / To form the life, and rule the will, / Propitious power! impart."

— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)

Date: October, 1739

"Teach me to cool my passion's fires, / Make me the judge of my desires / The master of my heart."

— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)

Date: 1739

Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1714, 1739

Two woman may "with equal Ardor assure [themselves] of the Empire of a [man's] heart

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"All the Revolutions that inhuman Fortune can expose us to, the Loss of Grandeur, Persecutions, the Poison of Envy, and the Insults of Hatred, have nothing in 'em but what the Resolutions of a Mind where Reason has the least Rule, can easily defy."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1738, 1739

"For tho' right Reason should her Beams display, / And dart new Lustre on our clouded Way; / Unless Philosophy, with antient Strength, / Support her Empire to Life's utmost Length; / Unless, in Passion's Spite, we dare be free, / (What Few have been, and Few will ever be) / That pristine Turn, th...

— Bancks, John (1709-1751)

Date: 1739

"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)