Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777

"Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes"

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777

"Before my wondering sense new phantoms dance, / And stamp their horrid shapes upon my brain."

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777

"Queen of the human heart! at whose command / The swelling tides of mighty Passion rise."

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

Date: 1757-1759, 1767

"Subdue but Avarice, you'll find / More wide this Empire of the Mind, / Than could You Libya join to Spain, / And o'er each Carthage Monarch reign."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768

Unborn ages may crowd on the soul

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: w. 1755-1757, 1768

Horror may be a "tyrant of the throbbing breast"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: 1758

Truth is the "Great queen of harmony ... whose moral scepter rules the hearts of kings"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: w. 1757, 1758

"Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth, / When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!"

— Dodd, William (1729-1777)

Date: w. 1757, 1758

"What Briton wears a heart, steel'd to the touch / Of gentle Pity? "

— Dodd, William (1729-1777)

Date: 1758

"COME, Epictetus, arm my breast / With thy impenetrable steel, / No more the wounds of grief to feel, / Nor mourn, by others' woes deprest."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)