Date: 1725

In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1725

In composition " Where chance presides, all objects wildly join'd, / Crowd on the reader, and distract his mind; / From theme to theme unwilling is he tost, / And in the dark variety is lost"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1725

" He loaths the piece; condemns it; nor can find / The genuin stamp, and image of his mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1725

"A glorious train of images may find, / Preventing hope, and crowding on the mind."

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1726

"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726

"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."

— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)

Date: 1726

One may be galled "with Reproaches and Contempt, more heavy, and corroding into my Soul, than the Load and Rust of my Irons eating into my Flesh? "

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726

"I have so many Thoughts crowding in upon me, I don't know which first to speak to."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726

"Come quickly to the rescue of my Love, / Transport me with the dear, dear Sight of you, / Far from the crowding Thoughts of what I owe / To Warcourt, for my Father, and my self:"

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Restless, on paper, we our vows repeat, / And pour our souls out, on the missive sheet"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)