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: 1716

One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1717

"Thy Heart, Courtwell, is like a Looking-Glass, it presently receives the Image of what is represented before it, and as soon loses it"

— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)

Date: 1717

"So very well Sweetheart; I am mightily troubled with Phlegm--od I took it a little too high for my Constitution, but every time I look upon you, I fancy my self but Eighteen, and my Heart springs in my Belly like a Bird in a Cage."

— Bullock, Christopher (bap. 1690, d. 1722)

Date: January 16, 1717

"Madam, excuse this Absence of Mind; my animal Spirits had deserted the Avenues of my Senses, and retired to the Recesses of the Brain, to contemplate a beautiful Idea. I could not force the vagrant Creatures back again into their Posts, to move those Parts of the Body that express Civility."

— Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)

Date: 1717

"My Friend, does she not rule thy Soul?"

— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)

Date: 1717

"She does! she does! my charming Queen reigns here, / Triumphant in her native Throne, my Heart."

— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)

Date: 1717

"Thou hast resolv'd his Fate, I read thy Soul, / This ten long Months I've study'd thy dark Breast / And know the Want of Vertue in thy Frame, / Which must subject thee to the Mind, that knows thee."

— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)

Date: 1717

"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."

— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)

Date: 1717

"Were not my Mind enslav'd, were that but free, / How could I brave my Chains?"

— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)