Date: 1705

"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1716

"You have a very good Fancy, Mr. Tinsel--What pretty Transformations you could make in my House--But I'll see where 'twill end."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Date: 1737

One shouldn't "dread th' Effects of all their treach'rous Arts, / Their boasted Stratagems to conquer Hearts"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1739

"To him my heart shall gratefully ascribe / The crown of conquest, his unquestion'd right"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

Date: 1746

Heaven and Fancy are "kindred powers"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1764

"Forming a gloom, through which, to spleen-struck minds, / Religion, horror stamp'd, a passage find"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1771

Speaking one's mind is "a publishing of some Energie or Motion" of the soul

— Harris, James (1709-1780)

Date: 1818

A gentle soul may have no revenge in it and be whole in tenderness

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1830

"'A lovely form there sate beside my bed [...]Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, / Wooing its gentle way into my soul!"

— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Date: 1848

"When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain [...] "

— Keats, John (1795-1821)