Date: 1727

"We rather take Notice of this here; Because this Philosophy had made the Mind a Rasa Tabula, or a Blank Paper, or an Empty and Void Room without any Furniture, which therefore it was to Supply; And this is done by Storing it with it's Simple Ideas from Sensation and Reflection, and from thence D...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

Artificial Memory "Consisted in making Choice of a Certain Number of Loci, or Places, which were Distinguished from each Other by their Order, of First, Second, &c. by Various Spaces, Figures, and Intervals, and by Certain Marks and Characters, where were Affixed to every Fifth, or Tenth p...

— Greene, Robert (c. 1678-1730)

Date: 1727

"Thus when the villain crams his chest, / Gold is the canker of the breast"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"I must have Women. There is nothing unbends the Mind like them."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"If Love the Virgin's Heart invade, / How, like a Moth, the simple Maid / Still plays about the Flame!"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"Though my Heart were as frozen as Ice, / At his Flame 'twould have melted away."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1728

"My Heart was so free, / It rov'd like the Bee, / 'Till Polly my Passion requited."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1729

"To Coin, like Man, a little Ape, / 'Gainst Heaven is High-Treason"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1734

"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1735, 1745

"Mean while, What think'st thou? Was the human Soul, / Which by a transient Glance from Pole to Pole / Travels more swift than Light, to Heav'n sublime / Can fly, descend to Hell, six fleeting Time, / The Past and Future to the Present join, / And knows no Bounds which can Its Range confine,...

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)