Date: 1755

"Why did I not / Repent, while yet my Crimes were decibel! / Ere they had struck their Colours thro' my Soul, / As black as Night or Hell!"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1755

"His bold Resolves have steel'd ZAPHIRA's Breast / Against thy Love"

— Brown, John (1715-1766)

Date: 1755

A beam of brightness may break on the mind and "drive errors cloud away / & make a calm in passions troubled sea"

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1755, 1836

"Should man through Nature solitary roam, / His will his sovereign, every where his home, / What force would guard him from the lion's jaw?"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755, 1836

The Maker has "impress'd" on the human breast, a "sense of kindred, country, man"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755, 1836

One is mistaken if he hopes to find "In shades a med'cine for a troubled mind"

— Grainger, James (1721-1766)

Date: 1755

"Yet you disdain the meaner arts / By women us'd to conquer hearts."

— Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

Date: 1755

"Bid grief, that vulture to my breast, / Sharper than what Prometheus knows, / Avaunt! and leave the bard at rest."

— Derrick, Samuel

Date: 1755

Various are the forms that virtue assumes to regulate the active soul, "When rais'd passions dare to presume / The check of reason to controul"

— Derrick, Samuel

Date: 1755

If the "emanating mind" superior soars, virtue binds it with ties of reason

— Derrick, Samuel