Date: 1746

Heaven and Fancy are "kindred powers"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

Date: 1757

A "medal'd fact" or a "sculptur'd tale" may "On the reflecting mind prevail"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1764

"Forming a gloom, through which, to spleen-struck minds, / Religion, horror stamp'd, a passage find"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

Date: 1771

Speaking one's mind is "a publishing of some Energie or Motion" of the soul

— Harris, James (1709-1780)

Date: 1778

"We never throw away our reason, by using it unnecessarily."

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)

Date: 1778

"It is by possession of this power, that the mind holds its empire----foor when this power is lost, we are said to be out of our senses--and then our acts can neither be good nor evil"

— Caulfield (fl. 1778)