Date: 1737

"Lend me the plaint, which, to the lonely main, / With memory conversing, you will pour, / As on the pebbled shore you, pensive, stray"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1737

"Whence Talbot's friendship glows to future times, / Intrepid, warm; of kindred tempers born; / Nursed, by experience, into slow esteem, / Calm confidence unbounded, love not blind, / And the sweet light from mingled minds disclosed, / From mingled chymic oils as bursts the fire."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1737

"I too remember well that mental Bowl, / Which round his Table flow'd."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1737

One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"'If passion once invade the female mind, / '(Tenacious sex!) in vain would mortal art / 'Wrench the warm weapon from the bleeding heart."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

Date: 1737

One may "grateful bow / To those benignant pow'rs, who fram'd thy mind / In crimes unfruitful, never to admit / The black impression of a guilty thought."

— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)

Date: 1737

"Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodg'd, wou'd be / No Room of State within the Grave for me."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"But oh! what anguish did his soul invade, / When he was told, the lov'd enchanting maid / At Isis holy shrine devoutly bow'd, / A virgin priestess to the goddess vow'd?"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1737

"Some heav'nly being had prepar'd his thought, / And on his heart the kind impression wrought."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)