Date: 1739

"Oh! Lack-a-day, I have Don John at Finger's ends, and know your Heart to be the greatest Rambler in the World; 'tis pleas'd to run from Chains to Chains, and never loves to rest in one Place."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

Date: 1727, 1739

"That Bosom, where thy Image dwells!"

— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod

Date: 1739

"Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1739

"More hard than Marble is my Heart, / And foul with Sins of deepest Stain: / But Thou the mighty Saviour art, / Nor flow'd thy cleansing Blood in vain. / Ah! soften, melt this Rock, and may / Thy Blood wash all these Stains away."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1741

" One Stamp of Mind their very Forms express'd, / Same shap'd, like fac'd, like manner'd, and same drest"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"He blinds the Wise, gives Eye-sight to the Blind; / And moulds and stamps anew the Lover's Mind"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1741

"Whether from mutual Passion springs the Flame, / Or Minds congenial stamp the vital Seeds"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

Date: 1745

"Drink early then, my Friend, at Reason's Bowl, / And fill with wholesome Draughts thy youthful Soul. / If Wine or Gall the Recent Vessel stains, / Each Scent alike the faithful Cask retains."

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)

Date: 1752

Pleasure is "the secret Spring that actuates man"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]

Date: 1755

"So that our author did not enter the lists against the memory of the real substantial chivalry, which he held in veneration; but, with design to expel an hideous phantome that possessed the brains of the people, waging perpetual war with true genius and invention."

— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)