Date: 1746

Man may be sway'd by his passions and employ his reason as "the sly pimp and pander of his joys"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The living soul breathes through all matter

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1747

"Tho' her bright Image, in his Breast he bears, / And all her Beauties in his Form appears; / Tho' in his Soul she lights her heav'nly Flame, / And finds even here a Votary in him."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

Date: 1748

Thought is "The lover's heaven, or his hell."

— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

Date: 1748

"His soul was fair, / Bright as the children of yon azure sheen!"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1748

"O who can speak the vigorous joys of health! / Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1748

"Let godlike reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word 'I will!' and it is done."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1733, 1748

"Where thou [Memory] art not, the cheerless human mind / Is one vast void, all darksome, sad, and blind; / No trace of anything remains behind."

— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

Date: 1749

Sin may mock "the' eraser's art" so that marks remain on the soul as a foul stain

— Wesley, John and Charles