Date: 1735, 1763

"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"In fair proportion here describ'd we trace / Each mental beauty, and each moral grace; / Each useful passion taught, its tone design'd / In the nice concord of a well-tun'd mind."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Does mean self-love contract each social aim? / Here publick transports shall thy soul inflame."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"The mind not taught to think, no useful store / To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Turn'd on its self its num'rous wants are seen, / And all the mighty void that lies within / Yet cannot wisdom stamp our joys complete; / 'Tis conscious virtue crowns the blest retreat."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"'Midst foreign objects not employ'd to roam, / Thought, sadly active, still corrodes at home."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"But equal passions let his bosom rule, / A judgment candid, and a temper cool, / Enlarg'd with knowledge, and in conscience clear, / Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Our lives like his in one smooth current flow, / Nor swell'd with tempest, nor too calmly slow, / Whilst he like some great sage of Rome or Greece, / Shall calm each rising doubt and speak us peace, / Correct each thought, each wayward wish controul, / And stamp with every virtue all the soul."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Unnumber'd fears corrode and haunt his breast, / With all that whim or ign'rance can suggest."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1735

"Poetical Justice extends only to such as the Law cannot lay hold of, such as are to be tried in Foro Conscientiae, where the Delinquent, being strongly touched by a Resemblance of Himself, may amend."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)