Date: 1770

"These chronic Passions, while from real woes / They rise, and yet without the body's fault / Infest the soul, admit one only cure; / Diversion, hurry, and a restless life."

— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)

Date: 1770

"These objects banish care, they set us loose / From mean attachments, and compose our souls / For fine impressions, and for heavenly airs:"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1770

"Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart, / Expect a mansion in that dire abode."

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1770

"Mean while, the duties of a man revolve, / And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve"

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1770

"Destructive eyes, false mirrors of the heart! / I, to my sorrow know the lies you've told me."

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1770

"I could not look upon his mangled corse: / I saw his mangled corse in my mind's eye."

— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)

Date: 1770?

There are "Some, whose blank minds, no spark of mercy knew."

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875

"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see."

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875

"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Date: 1770, 1806

"Nor pride nor fickleness could claim / The empire of his mind."

— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)