Date: 1708

"Gold is the Magnet whose Attraction / Commands his Heart in ev'ry Action: / To that his Avaricious Soul / Points like the Needle to the Pole:"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1708

"You know, Lavinia, once I lov'd you well; / Nor has your Crimes yet chang'd my Heart to Steel."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1708

"But round their Sockets did he rowl / The little Windows of his Soul"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1709

"How soft the first ideas prove, / Which wander through our minds!"

— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

Date: 1709

"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1709

"Thus in the Picture of our Mind / The Action may be well design'd; / Guided by Law, and bound by Duty; / Yet want this Je ne sçay quoy of Beauty."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1709

A Lady wounded in love may "strive to conquer Hearts, / And triumph o'er their Pain"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1709

A form may be shot into the soul

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"Love, the Soft Seal, by which alone we find / Something of Angel stamp't on Human-kind; / While we, like Wax, to the Impression bow, / And find our Souls are One, we know not how."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"One weeping, only Son She left behind, / With all her Goodness stampt upon his Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)