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: 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)