Date: 1715, 1727

"[A]ll the Faculties of my Soul and Body are her Slaves"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1715

"Love is a generous Volunteer; Lust a Mercenary Slave"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1715

"Love is a Court of Honour in the Heart"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1715

Love may be a "scandalous Itching, a Rebellion in the Blood"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1716

"Conscience only, that can see without Light, sits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, surveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities."

— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

Date: 1716

One's head may be "perpetually confounded with the Fumes of Ale and Faction"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1717

"Her Empire o'er my Soul each Moment grew; / Her Charms appear'd more numerous and new: / Fonder each Hour my tender Heart became, / And ev'ry Look fann'd and increas'd my Flame."

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1717

"But that bright Daughter of eternal Day [Reason], / Holds in our mortal Frame a dubious Sway."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"Yet banish'd from the Realms by Right [Reason's] own, / Passion, a blind Usurper, mounts the Throne."

— Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)

Date: 1717

"But, they who have considered with care the foundation and circumstances of their actions, doubt of their freedom, and are even persuaded, that their reason and understanding are slaves that cannot resist the force which carries them along."

— Collins, Anthony (1676-1729)