Date: 1720

"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

Date: 1722

"No Man can boast a God-like Mind, / From that Infernal Dross refin'd; / By Nature all are Base"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1724, 1787

"Sure thou wilt weep, and tender sorrows feel; / Nor flint thy heart, nor is thy breast of steel."

— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)

Date: 1727, 1787

"Oak was his heart, his breast with steel / Thrice mail'd, that first the brittle keel / Committed to the murtherous deep."

— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)

Date: 1728

Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1731

Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind

— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)

Date: 1734

"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1734

"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1734

"All Manners take a tincture from our own, / Or come discolour'd thro' our Passions shown."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1734

"Or Fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)