Date: February 22, 1723

"O Sir! reflect, if thus / The bare recital wounds your fancy now, / A yet more dreadful pain may pierce your heart!"

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1730

A beauteous face may be the index of a beauteous mind

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

Date: 1731

"I am unpractis'd in the Arts of Court; / And my free Thoughts range open as my Eye-balls."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1736

"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1736

"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1755

"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1773

Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex

— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

Date: 1775

The mind may be "weak and sickly"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: 1775

One's thought may ache at someone

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

Date: 1779

"There are, my Liege, who have with groundless jealousy / Poison'd Lord Edward's mind, and work'd on him / To yield to infamy his spotless Bride."

— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)