Date: 1755

"They George's Image in his Coin approve, / Thy pictur'd Mind I in thy Letters love."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1755, 1836

"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755, 1836

The Maker has "impress'd" on the human breast, a "sense of kindred, country, man"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755, 1836

One is mistaken if he hopes to find "In shades a med'cine for a troubled mind"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755

"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."

— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

Date: 1755

"Bid grief, that vulture to my breast, / Sharper than what Prometheus knows, / Avaunt! and leave the bard at rest."

— Derrick, Samuel

Date: 1755

Various are the forms that virtue assumes to regulate the active soul, "When rais'd passions dare to presume / The check of reason to controul"

— Derrick, Samuel

Date: 1755

If the "emanating mind" superior soars, virtue binds it with ties of reason

— Derrick, Samuel

Date: 1755

" When knowledge vainly tries, to form a rule / For female minds;--ev'n knowledge is a fool. / Nor can the laws of art, or nature fix, / Nor wise philosophy, the wondrous sex"

— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

Date: 1755

The "busy Statesman's mind" may grow putrid on the throne of power so that "Fresh vices spring up ev'ry hour; / As in dead corses serpents breed, / And loathsome, on corruption feed"

— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)