Date: 1742

"seems the Counterpart by Heav'n design'd / A Symbol and a Warning to Mankind: / As at some Door we find hung out a Sign, / Type of the Monster to be found within"

— Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)

Date: 1738, 1742

"Ye Princes by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / Who hear your Subjects all around complain / Of Wrongs, repeated Wrongs, on Land and Main, / While all your Counsels are yourselves to please, / And while ye batten in inglorious Ease, / 'Tis Virtue only can...

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1738, 1742

"See what obnoxious Vices still remain, / Which there's no Law, no Bridle, to restrain."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1738, 1742

"In doing these ye act the princely Part, / And build your Empires in the People's Heart."

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

Judgement may assume "her Seat, the Mind"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

A poet may "to the Eye of Judgement ever shine"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

Date: 1742

"Not all the chains that tyrants use / Shall bind their souls to vice."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1742

"He binds my Name upon his Arm, / And seals it on his Heart."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1742

"No more shall trickling Sorrows roll / Thro' those dear Windows of his Soul."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

Date: 1742

"By Him instructed, even the meanest Prince / Shall rise to envy'd Greatness, shall advance / His dreaded Pow'r above Restraint and Fear, / And all the Rules, that in fantastick Chains / Inferior Minds confine."

— West, Gilbert (1703-1756)