Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Call back your Thoughts from each deluding Passion, / And wing your parting Soul for her last Flight."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Tho' at the Musick of thy Voice, I own, / My Soul is husht, it sinks into a Calm, / And takes sure Omen of its Peace from thee."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Curst be your Looks, your Tongues, and your false Arts, / That cheat our Eyes, and wound our easie Hearts."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Perhaps, indeed, such are your wandring Brains, / Our Author might haue spar'd his Tragick Pains."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1709?

"And this firm Vow for mutual Life shall stand, / Irrevocably seal'd with Heart and Hand."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: 1712

"Fancy governs the Blood--and when the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite-- the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies."

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1712

"[W]hen the Imagination is cloy'd, Reason is a Slave to Appetite"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1712

Appetite is "the despotic Ruler of our Souls and Bodies

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1712

" But as the Passions of the Human Mind / Must strictly be to Nature's Laws confin'd,"

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1713

Thus o'er the dying Lamp th'unsteady Flame / Hang's quiv'ring on a Point, leap's off by Fits, / And fall's again, as loath to quit its Hold / --Thou must not go, my Soul still hover's o'er thee / And can't get loose."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)