Date: 1756

"I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed, than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy."

— Warton, Joseph (bap. 1722, d. 1800)

Date: 1746, 1757

"Shall He, to God / Dear as his Eye and Heart, engraven there / Deep from Eternity; alone Belov'd, / Alone Begotten! say, shall He become / A Man of Grief--for Man?"

— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)

Date: 1757

"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

Date: 1757

"Truth stampt its image on thy heart"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1757

" To trace the actions of the good and great: / And stamp bright virtue's image on the heart"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1757

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

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)

Date: 1757

"His thoughts as silver flow"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

Date: 1757

"For, as an alloy to its very great advantages, there is something selfish, ungenerous and illiberal in the nature and views of trade, that tends to debase and sink the mind below its natural state."

— Harris, Joseph (bap. 1704, d. 1764)

Date: 1746, 1757

"Yet tho' to human Sight invisible, / If She, whom I implore, Urania deign, / With Euphrasy to purge away the Mists / Which, humid, dim the Mirror of the Mind; / (As Venus gave Æneas to behold / The angry Gods with Flame o'erwhelming Troy, / Neptune and Pallas,) not in vain, I'll sing / The mysti...

— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)

Date: 1757

"Shall ev'ry blockhead think his mind, / Like yours, the mirrour of mankind?"

— Boyce, Samuel (d. 1775)