Date: 1705

"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1737

One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"To him my heart shall gratefully ascribe / The crown of conquest, his unquestion'd right"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1746

Heaven and Fancy are "kindred powers"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1757

A "medal'd fact" or a "sculptur'd tale" may "On the reflecting mind prevail"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1764

"Forming a gloom, through which, to spleen-struck minds, / Religion, horror stamp'd, a passage find"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)