Date: [1726]

"I will not (continued the God of tender Wishes) prolong the little Narrative I have to make you, by a repetition of her Lamentations when alone, and at liberty to indulge them; you may believe they were extremely violent, and suitable to the Occasion: but as soon as Reason had the power of resum...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: [1726]

"Review with the Mind’s Eye the various scenes of Life which this Day’s Progress has presented."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: [1726]

"Endeavour at least, to throw each darling Failing from thy Soul; and those Reflections which, in thy coolest Hours of Thought, Reason inspires, retain about thee always; then canst thou never be by any ill Passion sway'd, nor do a Deed which Conscience can condemn: Conscience and Reason still go...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: [1726]

"Let what I have said be written in thy Heart, and keep it ever treasured in thy Mind."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: [1726]

"Being alone, under the pretence of diverting her Melancholy, he desir’d to sup with her, which she consented to with pleasure; but he took care in filling out the Wine to mingle something in it of a more intoxicating kind, which tho’ she drank of but with moderation, had the effect he aim’d at, ...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1726

"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1726

"To remember where he enters in the succession, they only consider in what part of the cabinet he lies; and by runinng over in their thoughts such a particular drawer, will give you an account of all the remarkable parts of his reign."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1727

"E'en Light itself, which every thing displays, / Shone undiscover'd, till [Newton's] brighter mind / Untwisted all the shining robe of day."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1727

"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1727

"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)