Date: 1741

"But Thou shalt rise superior to their Arts, / And fix Thy Empire in a People's Hearts."

— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)

Date: 1743

"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

"Where'er we turn, by Fancy charmed, we find / Some sweet illusion of the cheated mind. / Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove / With humbler nature in the rural grove."

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

The wounded heart may be supported by songs and healed by morals

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

The heart may bleed

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1743

"Fair Fancy wept"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1747

Johnson's dictionary may "awaken to the care of purer diction some men of genius, whose attention to argument makes them negligent of style, or whose rapid imagination, like the Peruvian torrents, when it brings down gold, mingles it with sand."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1754

"Then thus Philantha, in whose breast / Good-nature is a constant guest,"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

Date: 1754, 1793

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

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

Date: 1754

"I shall not, therefore, say any thing further about the nature of mind in general, that secret spring of thought, unknown and unknowable, but shall content myself to observe, in Mr. Locke's method and with his assistance, something about the phænomena of the human mind, by which we may judge sur...

— St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)