Date: 1725

"Obedient let my Passions be / To all the Rules of strict Morality."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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

"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: 1725-6

"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.

Date: 1725-6

"This is spoken with too great severity: it is necessary to relieve the mind of the reader sometimes with gayer scenes, that it may proceed with a fresh appetite to the succeeding entertainment."

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

Date: 1725-6

"The moral then of these fables of Alcinous is, that a constant series of happiness intoxicates the mind, and that moderation is often learn'd in the school of adversity."

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