Date: 1715, 1762

"In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he, / Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

Date: 1718

"A thousand little Nerves She sends / Quite to our Toes, and Fingers Ends; / And These in Gratitude again / Return their Spirits to the Brain; / In which their Figure being printed / (As just before, I think, I hinted) / Alma inform'd can try the Case, / As She had seen upon the Place. // Thus, w...

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1719

"Than from this Mind, O! venerable Shade, / Th'Impression be eras'd thy Words have made."

— Breval, John Durant (1680/81-1738)

Date: 1720

"Poetry is called the image of the mind, / In mine my soul and body both are joined."

— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)

Date: 1721

"To this, and all the Ages that succeeds: / His Actions are engrav'd in ev'ry Breast."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

Date: 1722

"Yon Knight said he, in War is so expert, / And has it so engraven on his Heart, / That he unto a very Point does know, / Each Stratagem, and nice Punctilio."

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1722

" The Print of Love new-stamp'd his ductile Breast, / And with soft Characters his Soul Imprest"

— Hamilton, William, of Gilbertfield (c. 1665-1751)

Date: 1724, 1756

"Consult the native Dictates of thy Soul; / And if thou there discern the Maker's Hand, / Confess his Care, resign to his Command."

— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)

Date: 1725-6

"O Prince attend! some sav'ring pow'r be kind,
And print th'important story on thy mind!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"Then hear my words, and grave them in thy mind!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.