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Date: 1754

Storms may surprise the heart, the seat of reason and repose

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

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Date: 1754

One may be raised on "Virtue's turret"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

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Date: 1754

There may be sunshine in the breast

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

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Date: 1755

"His wav'ring mind is in a whirlwind tost."

— Mendez, Moses (1690 - c.1758)

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Date: 1756

Kings and courts may stain the mind

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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Date: 1756

"I ask not Her heart, but would conquer my own"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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Date: 1756

"O take me! stamp me on thy breast! / Deep let the image be imprest!"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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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)

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Date: 1757

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

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"His thoughts as silver flow"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.