Date: 1732

"Malice, and Lust, voracious Birds of Prey, / That out-soar Reason, and our Wishes sway; / Desires' wild Seas, on which the wise are tost, / By Pilot Indolence, are safely crost."

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1731-1732, 1777

"Your poet shall allot your Lord his part, / And paint him in his noblest throne--your heart."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1732

"Heav'ns! what Ideas fill'd each mighty Mind! / Their Works appear'd the Mirrour of Mankind!"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1732

"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

Date: 1733

"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

Date: 1733

"I see the Soul in pensive fit, / And mopeing like sick Linnet sit, / With dewy eye and moulting wing, / Unperch'd, averse to fly or sing."

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733

"Let Vice and guilt act how they please / In souls their conquer'd provinces;"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733

"Virtue's exempt from quartering fears. / Shall then arm'd phancies fiercely drest / Live at discretion in your breast?"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733

"Be wise and pannick fright disdain, / At notions, meteors of the brain"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]