Date: 1753

Love may "To slighted beauty .. new powers impart: / And stretch the aided empire of the heart"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1754

The "grim natives" of East-Brent were of "reason wholly void, whom instinct rules"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754, 1793

"Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng, / Their syllogistic war prolong, / And reason's empire boast."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1754, 1793

Griefs may "alternate o'er the bosom reign"

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1754, 1793

"Desires more warm their natal throne maintain, / Platonic passions only reach the brain."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1754

Reason may rule the mind and keep her God-like seat

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754

"O, come; indignant, drive out, far beyond/ The utmost Precincts of the human Breast, / Beyond the Springs of Hope, the Cells of Joy, / And ev'ry Mansion where a Virtue lives; / O drive far off, for ever drive that Bane, / That hideous Pest, engender'd deep in Hell, / Where Stygian Glooms condens...

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

Date: 1755, 1773

"All the empire I had wanted / Then had been my shepherd's heart."

— Shenstone, William (1714-1763)

Date: 1755, 1836

"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755

Various are the forms that virtue assumes to regulate the active soul, "When rais'd passions dare to presume / The check of reason to controul"

— Derrick, Samuel