Date: 1731

"For what is Pulchritude in Visible Objects, or Harmony in Sounds, but the Proportion, Symmetry and Commensuration of Figures, and Sounds to one another, whereby Infinity is Measured and Determined, and Multiplicity and Variety vanquished and triumphed over by Unity, and by that means they become...

— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

Date: 1731

"But now, in the Room of this Artificial Book in Volumes, let us Substitute the Book of Nature, the whole Visible and Material Universe, printed all over with the Passive Characters and Impressions of Divine Wisdom and Goodness, but legible only to an Intellectual Eye."

— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

Date: 1731

The "Cognoscitive Power of the Soul" unfolds and displays itself, "As the Spermatick or Plastick Power doth Virtually contain within it self, the Forms of all the Several Organical Parts of Animals, and displays them gradually and Successively, framing an Eye-here and an Ear there."

— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)

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: 1704-5; 1731

"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his bodily Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his Mind be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...

— Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)

Date: 1732

"This fill'd her Mind with torturing Agonies; and her whole Soul bled for this Carlo's victim, whom there was now no way Wit could invent to rescue from the Danger."

— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)

Date: 1733

"The thinking Sculpture helps to raise / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To the minds ear, and inward sight, / There silence speaks, and shade gives light:"

— Green, Matthew (1696-1737) [pseud. Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford]

Date: 1733, 1777

"Instead of hallow'd hill, or vocal vale, / Or stream, sweet-echoing to the tuneful tale; / Damp dens confin'd, or barren desarts spread, / Which spectres haunted, and the muses fled; / Ruins in pensive emblem seem'd to rise, / And all was dark, or wild, to Fancy's eyes."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1733-4

"It is therefore in the Anatomy of the Mind as in that of the Body; more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which will for ever escape our observation."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"So, cast and mingled with his very frame, / The mind's disease, its ruling passion came: / Each vital humour which should feed the whole, / Soon flows to this, in body and in soul."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)