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)

Date: 1778

"We never throw away our reason, by using it unnecessarily."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"It is by possession of this power, that the mind holds its empire----foor when this power is lost, we are said to be out of our senses--and then our acts can neither be good nor evil"

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1799

"My mind fastened upon the idea of this room with an unusual degree of intenseness."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1799

"A sinking at my heart, as if it had been penetrated my a dagger seized me"

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Date: 1818

A gentle soul may have no revenge in it and be whole in tenderness

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1830

"'A lovely form there sate beside my bed [...]Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, / Wooing its gentle way into my soul!"

— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)