Date: 1728

"How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil, / To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"Gold is the Load-stone of the Great, / And vulgar Souls must catch the glitt'ring Bait."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"While Love, recording with a keener Dart, / Engrav'd each Token deeper on my Heart!"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

Imaginary Conquests may swell the Mind

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"Or canst Thou judge, by partial Passion blind?"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"At once thy small, yet glorious Dart / Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart."

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"Gold has no Lustre to the Souls of Man, / Gold is but tempting to our worldly Eye"

— Pattison, William (1706-1727)

Date: 1728

"[D]id we consider that the time will come, when we shall be as conscious of his Presence, as we are of our own Existence; as sensible of his Approbation or [195] Condemnation, as we are of the Testimony of our own Hearts; ... how should we despise that Honour which is...

— Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)

Date: 1728, 1740

"Savage their nature, and their hearts of stone; / Their houses brass, of brass the warlike blade"

— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)