Date: 1735, 1763

"Each shapely offspring of her feeble thought, / A darker veil o'er genuine science brought; / Still stubborn facts o'erthrew their fruitless toil; / For truth and fiction who shall reconcile?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"The mind not taught to think, no useful store / To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"'Midst foreign objects not employ'd to roam, / Thought, sadly active, still corrodes at home."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Unnumber'd fears corrode and haunt his breast, / With all that whim or ign'rance can suggest."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735

"God gave us Reason as the Stars were giv'n, / Not to discard the Sun, but mark out Heav'n."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"That Thought romantic Memory detains / In unknown cells and in aereal chains; / Imagination thence her flow'rs translates, / And Fancy emulous of God, creates."

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735

"And Fancy emulous of God, creates:"

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

Date: 1735-6

"He, too, the fire of fancy feeds intense, / With all the train of passions thence derived: / Not kindling quick, a noisy transient blaze, / But gradual, silent, lasting, and profound."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1734-1735

"Hark! she invites from city smoke and noise, / Vapours impure, and from impurer joys; / From various evils, that, with rage combin'd, / Untune the body, and pollute the mind."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

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)