Date: 1736

"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736, 1803

Truth has "a window in her naked breast"

— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

Date: 1736

"PAULTONS affords me next a kind Retreat, / Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"A thousand Pleasures crowd into his Breast."

— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)

Date: 1736, 1743

"Hail, heav'n-born Piety! unknown / Where mad Ambition taints the Mind."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1736, 1743

"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1736, 1743

"But Care no Desert can exclude, / We haunt ourselves in Solitude."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

Date: 1736

"Infuse a little Wit into the Scull, / Which never fails to make a mighty Fool; / Two Drams of Faith; a Tun of Doubting next; / Let all be with the Dregs of Reason mixt: / When, in his Mind, these jarring Seeds are sown, / He'll censure all Things, but approve of none."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."

— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)

Date: 1736

"Great Minds, by native Sympathy, combine, / As golden Particles the closest join."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)