Date: 1781

"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."

— Keate, George (1729-1797)

Date: 1781

"Fashion's pert tricks the crowded brain oppress / With all the poor parade of tawdry dress:"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1781

"For when Care or dull Sorrow perplexes our breasts,
He can banish the Senses that harbour such Guests!"

— Tickell, Richard (1751-1793)

Date: 1781, second ed. 1787

"Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to pro...

— Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)

Date: 1781

"I have been speaking hitherto of a morning saunter; for in the evening there generally is, on St. Mark's Place, such a mixed multitude of Jews, Turks, and Christians; lawyers, knaves, and pickpockets; mountebanks, old women, and physicians; women of quality with masks; strumpets barefaced; and, ...

— Moore, John (1729-1802)

Date: 1782

Homer's "Song arose / As the good Parson's quiet Sermon grows; / Who, while his easy thoughts no pressure find / From hosts of images that crowd the mind, / First calmly settles on some moral text, / Then creeps--from one division--to the next"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1782

"Here tranquility once more made its abode the heart of Cecilia; that heart so long torn with anguish, suspense and horrour!"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least, / There dwells a consciousness in every breast."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art, / Powers of the mind , and feelings of the heart, / Insensible of Truth's almighty charms, / Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1782

"Peace of mind" is a delightful guest that may make its "downy nest" in a "sad heart"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)