Date: December, 1763; 1774

Bigotry "Wouldst pluck down Reason from her throne / to raise some fantom"

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: March 1763, 1774

"While with the motion of the pen, / Method pops in and out agen, / So, as I said, I thought it better, / To set me down and think a letter, / And without any more ado, / Seal up my mind, and send it you."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: December, 1763; 1774

"Tho' Prejudice in narrow minds, / The mental eye of reason blinds."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: 1763

"A far-stretch'd mirror spreads: its Bosom shews / Th'inverted prospect, circled in with hills / And cliffs, a Theatre immense!"

— Keate, George (1729-1797)

Date: 1763, 1791

"Fancy precedes [Judgment], and conquers all the mind"

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1763, 1791

Deliberating Judgment slowly comes behind [Fancy]; / Comes to the field with blunderbuss and gun, / Like heavy Falstaff, when the work is done"

— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)

Date: 1763

"O'er crabbed authors life's gay prime to waste, / To clamp wild genius in the chains of taste, / To bear the slavish drudgery of schools, / And tamely stoop to ev'ry pedant's rules."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"Try, thou State-Juggler, ev'ry paltry art, / Ransack the inmost closet of my heart / Swear Thou'rt my Friend; by that base oath make way / Into my breast, and flatter to betray."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763

"Grown old in villainy, and dead to grace, / Hell in his heart, and TYBURNE in his face; / Behold, a Parson at thy Elbow stands, / Low'ring damnation, and with open hands / Ripe to betray his Saviour for reward; / The Atheist Chaplain of an Atheist Lord."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1763 (repr. 1776); 1794 (repr. 1799)

"The power which the mind evidently has of moving the various parts of the body by nerves inserted in the muscles is truly wonderful, seeing the mind neither knows the muscles to be moved, nor the machinery, by which the motion in it is to be produced: so that it is as if a musician should always...

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)