Date: 1754

"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

"And friendship with the bless'd, new fervour gains, / Exalted fervour, free from earth's cold dross, / And each alloy, that sensual hearts engross;"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1754

"If, holy Father, to be here distress'd, / Seals the repenting Soul to heav'nly rest,"

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

"Thus oft' disguis'd, in poverty we find / Bright genius sparkle thro' an humble mind. / What tho' no gold or diamonds gild the mine, / No glittering strata in the caverns shine; / Yet useful minerals, of various birth, /Lodge in the fruitful bowels of the earth."

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754

"In Her each gift of Soul and Body met; / And in pure gold the precious gem was set."

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

"For Damons's heart is true as steel, / And hard as flint is Phyllida's."

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

"Say what strange sympathy in kindred souls, / (Strong as the fam'd attraction of the poles,) / Governs the lover with magnetic force, / Inspires the passion, and directs its course"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754

"Then thus Philantha, in whose breast / Good-nature is a constant guest,"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: January, 1754; 1791

"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love, / That wooes the yielding needle; contemplate / Th'attractive amber's power, invisible / Ev'n to the mental eye."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: January, 1754; 1791

"[B]affled here / By his omnipotence Philosophy / Slowly her thoughts inadequate revolves, / And stands, with all his circling wonders round her, / Like heavy Saturn in th'etherial space / Begirt with an inexplicable ring."

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)