Date: 1746

"If wisdom once relax her golden reins, / No bliss is felt-but what the transport feign / Excess of joy but terminates in pain, / And impotence is ever in disdain."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The living soul breathes through all matter

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"All raving Passions soon wou'd be supprest" is man cou'd "but thro' eternity pervade"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"Of all the passions--that the mind enslave,/ Tarnish the glory of the truly brave,/ The meanest this--of social love the pest, / The worst of Fiends--in fairest colours drest."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As the grave sage, who studies to explore, / Some cause phaenonimous--unknown before, / With patience waits--revolving in his mind / The vast events--attending human kind, / Till some propitious star his soul inspires, / And gives the great solution he requires."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1747

"Old Gripus ne'er was known to be devout, / Till Satan found his ruling passion out"

— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)

Date: 1747

"Something there is within this strange machine, / Which elevates my mind, and makes me dive / Too deep in fate"

— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)

Date: 1747

"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"

— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)

Date: 1747

"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."

— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)

Date: 1747

"But the wild passions, once broke loose, to check / Surpass'd his pow'r, or the slack'd reins recall."

— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)