Date: 1753, 1770

"Tho' liv'd he now he might appeal with scorn / To Lords, Knights, 'Squires and Doctors, yet unborn; / Or justly mad to Moloch's burning fane / Devote the choicest children of his brain."

— Armstrong, John (1708/9-1779)

Date: 1758

Some "stare like a second-sighted Scot, and, like him, see Things invisible by the sober Eye of Reason purged from the Films of Fancy"

— Anonymous [by the Author of "Emily; or, The History of a Natural Daughter]

Date: April 1761

"What the grave triflers on this busy scene, / When they make use of this word Reason, mean, / I know not; but according to my plan, / 'Tis Lord Chief-Justice in the court of man"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1762

"It is accordingly observed by Longinus, in his treatise of the Sublime, that the proper time for metaphor, is when the passions are so swelled as to hurry on like a torrent."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"The mind falls with a heavy body, descends with a river, and ascends with flame and smoke."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"This vibration of the mind in passing and repassing betwixt things that are related, explains the facts above mentioned."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"The same object makes not always the same impression; because the mind, being of a limited capacity, cannot, at the same instant, give great attention to a plurality of objects."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"In the same manner, good news arriving to a man labouring under distress, occasions a vibration in his mind from the one to the other."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"This is verified by experience; from which we learn, that different passions having the same end in view, impel the mind to action with united force. The mind receives not impulses alternately from these passions, but one strong impulse from the whole in conjunction."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)

Date: 1762

"Ovid paints in lively colours the vibration of mind betwixt two opposite passions directed upon the same object."

— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)