Date: 1752

The passions of hatred and revenge boil in the mind

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"So many tender Ideas crowded at once into my Mind, that, if I may use the Expression, they almost dissolved my Heart."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1753

The "Sunshine of a northern Beauty is too feeble to thaw the icy Heart of a French Courtier"

— Foote, Samuel (1720-1777)

Date: Tuesday, August 14, 1753

"But from the opposite errour, from torpid despondency, can come no advantage; it is the frost of the soul, which binds up all its powers, and congeals life in perpetual sterility."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1754

"Religion stamp'd her sorrow-melting heart"

— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)

Date: 1754

Soft Repose may glide smooth through the heart, calm as a stream

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1755

"If ever gentle Pity touch'd thy Heart, / Now let it melt!"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1755

"Thou, superior to the Frowns / Of Fate, can'st pour thy Sunshine o'er the Soul, / And brighten Woe to Rapture!"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1755

"But Tears of Joy: For I have seen ZAPHIRA, / And pour'd the Balm of Peace into her Breast"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1757, 1758, 1771, 1777

"Gentler shapes, and softer scenes disclose, / To melt the feeling heart, yet soothe its tenderest woes"

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)