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Date: January 13, 1796

"Come then, sweet sounds, for you alone / Can bid the tumult cease, / Restore reason to it's throne / His bosom to it's peace."

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

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Date: 1798

Virtue may slumber "and vice for a moment usurped her throne in [one's] heart" but she may awake again, "and with a look abashed and banished the usurper for ever"

— Papendick, George (fl. 1798)

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Date: 1798

A king may "Cherish the ripening mind of [his] vast empire"

— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)

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Date: 1798

One may be "banished ... not only from [another's] heart, but from all share of empire"

— Noehden, Georg Heinrich (1770-1826) and John Stoddart (1773-1856)

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Date: 1798

The heart of another may be one's judge

— Porter, Stephen (1781-1868); Kotzebue (1761-1819)

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