Date: 1755

"That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Thou sun of this great world both eye and soul

— Milton [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul"

— Milton [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"The only true zeal is that which is guided by a good light in the head"

— Spratt [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."

— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

Affections may seem benumbed or may take take fire

— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"I've seen thee stern, and thou hast oft beheld
Heart hardening spectacles"

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Such iron hearts we are, and such / The base barbarity of human kind."

— Rowe [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Date: 1755

"Thoughts come crouding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject."

— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]