Date: 1742

"AN Inward Baptism of Fire / Wherewith to be baptiz'd I have; / 'Tis all my longing Soul's Desire, / This, only This my soul can save."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"Enter my Heart, and fix Thy Throne / Thy Everlasting Presence there."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"Carnal heart, immersed in sin, / All a cage of birds unclean!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart ."

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

Date: 1742

"Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill, / My heart shall be Thy throne, / Thy holy, just, and perfect will / Shall in my flesh be done."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1742

"[I]t ought rather to be a Rule with Parents, who shall chastize their Children, to conquer what would be extreme in their own Passion" rather than to defer punishment

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

Date: 1742

"Thus on soft sophas in her cave reclin'd, / Slept the fam'd goddess of the leaden mind."

— Dodd, William (1729-1777)

Date: 1742, 1777

"Such are effectually excluded from all pretensions to philosophy, and the medicine of the mind, so much boasted."

— Hume, David (1711-1776)

Date: 1743

"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

"Where'er we turn, by Fancy charmed, we find / Some sweet illusion of the cheated mind. / Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove / With humbler nature in the rural grove."

— Collins, William (1721-1759)