Date: 1762

"Had the proud exile read my heart, / He then must have appeas'd the woes I suffer'd, / He then had pardon'd, and thou might'st have sooth'd me."

— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)

Date: 1762

"Avarice has canker'd their imprison'd minds, / And lust of gold has blinded them to justice."

— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)

Date: 1762

"Shall kings controul th' eternal rights of nature? / The free-born mind is royal of itself, / Nor asks vain glosses from exterior grandeur."

— Cradock, Joseph (1742-1826)

Date: 1763

"And short-liv'd o'er the heart is passion's reign"

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1763

"Till judgement stamp her sanction on the whole, / And sink th'impression deep into the soul.--"

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1763

I shall bury in Oblivion all Thoughts of the Intent,

— King, Thomas (1730-1805)

Date: 1763

"I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1763

"My heart was lighter than a fly, / Like any bird I sung, / Till he pretended love, and I, / Believed his flattering tongue."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)

Date: 1763

"But fancy's pictures float upon the brain."

— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)

Date: 1764

"Against ev'ry virtue the bosom to steel, / And only of dress the anxieties feel"

— Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)