Date: 1725

"Nor longer then she has the Heart to strive; / Yielding to all th' Impressions of his Flame"

— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)

Date: 1725

"Thus a Tempest at Sea is often an Emblem of Wrath"

— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)

Date: 1725

"In Pieces took here we are shewn the whole / Clock-work and Mechanism of the Soul; / May see the Movements, Labyrinths, and Strings, / Its Wires, and Wheels, and Balances, and Springs; / How 'tis wound up to its full Height, and then / What checks, and stops, and settles it again."

— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)

Date: 1725

"Momus himself cou'd not have more descry'd, / Had he his Window to the Mind apply'd, / (So clear the Images appear) than we / In this true Philosophick Mirror see."

— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)

Date: 1725

"Come, Reader, learn here what thou art, come see / Thy inmost Pow'rs; acquaint thy self with Thee, / View here the secret and mysterious Guest, / The Tenant, yet the Stranger of thy Breast"

— Glanvil, John (1664-1735)

Date: 1725

"I will give you the saddest Account you have ever yet been entertain'd with; but you must wrap your Heart in a Case of Adamant, or it will melt away in the hearing of it."

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725

"So delicate's the Texture of her Brain, / We wish it less refin'd, and nearer Man; / For weak's the Clock with over-curious Springs, / And frail the Voice that too divinely sings"

— Sterling, James

Date: 1725-6

"And sweet discourse [is] the banquet of the mind."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"To whom the Queen, (whilst yet her pensive mind / Was in the silent gates of sleep confin'd) / O sister, to my soul for ever dear, / Why this first visit to reprove my fear?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

Date: 1725-6

"A willing Goddess, and immortal life, / Might banish from thy mind an absent wife."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.