Date: 1781

"But now, farewell, ye flow'ry Cells, / Where bright Imagination dwells, / Round whom in Circles ever gay / The young Ideas love to play"

— Keate, George (1729-1797)

Date: 1781

"Well may'st thou bend o'er this congenial sphere; / For Sensibility is sovereign here."

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1781

"Her teeming Thoughts with bright Conceptions glow, / Ideas crowd, and Lines spontaneous flow."

— Keate, George (1729-1797)

Date: 1781

"Fashion's pert tricks the crowded brain oppress / With all the poor parade of tawdry dress:"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Date: 1781

"For when Care or dull Sorrow perplexes our breasts,
He can banish the Senses that harbour such Guests!"

— Tickell, Richard (1751-1793)

Date: 1781, 1791

"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1781, 1791

"Could I thus stamp with guilt, sensations sprung / From thought most delicate"?

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1781, 1791

An "scholar, but unwise" "cannot separate the dross / From the pure ore"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1781, 1791

"Hence rash Belief! may thy wild thoughts again / Ne'er thro the cells of busy fancy rove!"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1781, 1791

"If haply human passions swell, / And shake awhile their peaceful cell, / They strive with idle force"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)