Date: 1720

"Severity makes more Hypocrites than any Sort of Discipline; streight lacing the Body may make us good Shapes, but there's no streight lacing our Minds."

— Shadwell, Charles (fl. 1692-1720)

Date: 1720

"Nay more, when thou art dead, I won't leave thy Soul in Quiet--for I will go streight to thy House, break open they Chests, and scatter thy Gold and Silver, which is thy Soul"

— Molloy, Charles (d. 1767)

Date: 1720

"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

Date: 1720

"How savage must he be to learn such Ill! / And sure his very Soul it self was Steel."

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

Date: 1720

"O'er steely Breasts, oft soothing Prayers prevail"

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

Date: 1720

"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1720

"Hypocrisie contracts, there is no Room within, / The Heart is fetter'd and enthral'd by Sin."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

Date: 1720

"But Friendship is the Mirror of the Mind, which lays open to us all our Faults"

— Shadwell, Charles (d. 1726)

Date: 1720

"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1720

"But Adam's Soul being put in his Body, his Brain was a Tabula rasa, as White Paper, had no Impressions in it, but such as either God put in it, or such as came to him by his Senses."

— Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)