Date: 1735, 1745

"No; not as Men / Each other see; but with Angelick Ken, / With the Mind's Eye. Ev'n to Corporeal Sight, / With Emanations of transcendent Light, / He who is God, as well as Man, shall shine; / His glorious Body darting Rays divine"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

Date: 1702 [1735, 1779, 1779-80, 1790]

"O generous Sympathy, that binds / In Chains unseen the bravest Minds!"

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

Date: 1735

"Affection is the Chain of grateful Minds."

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

Date: w. before June 1735?

"Let vows or benefits the vulgar bind, / Such ties can never chain th' intrepid mind."

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

Date: 1735

"The Soul / Of Man alone, that Particle divine, / Escapes the Wreck of Worlds, when all Things fail."

— Somervile, William (1675-1742)

Date: 1735

"But if my Soul, / To this gross Clay confin'd, flutters on Earth / With less ambitious Wing; unskill'd to range / From Orb to Orb, where Newton leads the Way; / And view with piercing Eye the grand Machine, / Worlds above Worlds; subservient to his Voice, / Who, veil'd in clouded Majesty, alone ...

— Somervile, William (1675-1742)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Shall reason's voice impartial e'er condemn / The glorious purpose of so wise an aim?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Each publick passion bound to endless frost, / Each deed of social worth for ever lost."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Far as th' Almighty stretch'd his utmost line, / He pierc'd in thought, and view'd the vast design."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)