Date: 1724

"yet the soul, / Like a soft babe, inur'd to foolish fondness, / Is hard to wean from wailing."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1724

"My thoughts are furies all!--and turn upon me! / I feel their whips!--They lash me with remorse! / My brain grows hot!--Hell glows in my mad bosom!"

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1725

"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Date: 1726

"I have so many Thoughts crowding in upon me, I don't know which first to speak to."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726

"Come quickly to the rescue of my Love, / Transport me with the dear, dear Sight of you, / Far from the crowding Thoughts of what I owe / To Warcourt, for my Father, and my self:"

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: January 10, 1728.

"I scorn your Imputation, and your Menaces! The Narrowness of your Heart's your Monitor!"

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

Date: January 10, 1728.

"I knew no Directors, but my Passions, no Master but my Will!"

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

Date: 1730

"And know, that I am capable of resenting such ill Treatment, tho' you charge me with a Meanness that my Soul's a Stranger to; but I despise the Accuser and the Accusation both alike."

— Mottley, John (1692-1750)

Date: 1730

"Beauteous Creature! while I behold you, Thoughts crowd on Thoughts, and even obstruct the little Eloquence that I am Master of"

— Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)

Date: November 10, 1730

"Virtue, Love, and Grief, so amply fill her Mind, there is no Room for any ruder Guest"

— Lillo, George (1691/3-1739)