Date: 1705

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

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1716

"You have a very good Fancy, Mr. Tinsel--What pretty Transformations you could make in my House--But I'll see where 'twill end."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1722

"But my father, in his heart, still has a mind to him, were it not for this woman they talk of."

— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

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: January 1739

"I shall observe that there cannot be two passions more nearly resembling each other than those of hunting and philosophy, whatever disproportion may at first sight appear betwixt them"

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1739

"And as the Author very well says, whose Name I've forgot, Man is in this World like a Bird upon a Bough, the Bough is fix'd to the Tree, he who is fix'd to the Tree follows good Precepts, good Precepts are better than fine Words, fine Words are found at Court, at Court are Courtiers, Courtiers f...

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

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)