Date: 1767

"Imagination is that faculty whereby the mind not only reflects on its own operations, but which assembles the various ideas conveyed to the understanding by the canal of sensation, and treasured up in the repository of the memory, compounding or disjoining them at pleasure; and which, by its pla...

— Duff, William (1732-1815)

Date: 1767, 1784

"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"

— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

Date: 1768

"All my heart is open wide, / Every bar is thrown aside"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

Thoughts may "unbridled dare / Forward fly in wild career; /In their most impetuous course"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

"Let me, Reason, own thy force: / Though thou totter'st on thy throne, / Let me call thee still my own"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

A beloved may "o'ercome" a lover's "yielding heart" and fix "her empire there"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

The blind may be given the "better graces of the mind," such as "Genius, and Learning's Thews, and Judgement's light"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

A mirror is "mistress of the art, / Which conquers and secures a heart"

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)

Date: 1768

"War smil'd, while triple Rage new steel'd his heart."

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: 1768

Fable is a mirror in which an image of the mind may be presented

— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)