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Date: 1712

"Thus Fancy does the pliant Foetus wind, / Thus makes Impressions on the feeble Mind."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

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Date: 1712

"Vain Dreams (reply'd the wily Youth) deceive / Your wand'ring Thoughts, and false Impressions leave"

— Diaper, William (1686-1717)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"But what had been already said, / On David's mind a deep impression made."

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712, 1796

"But what he from the Lord had to him said, / On David's heart a deep impression made"

— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)

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Date: 1712

"Hence stampt on Nature we Perfection find, / Fair as th'Idea in th'Eternal Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1712

"Our wondring Eyes his high Perfections view, / The lofty Contemplation we pursue, / 'Till ravish'd we the great Idea find, / Shining in bright Impressions on our Mind."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1712

"Objects, which thro' the Senses make their Way, / And just Impressions to the Soul convey, Give her Occasion first her self to move, / And to exert her Hatred, or her Love."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1712

"Still travel to and fro the Nervous way, / And their Impressions to the Brain convey, / Where their Report the Vital Envoys make, / And with new Orders are remanded back."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1712

"You say, the Spirits in the Optick Nerve, / Mov'd by the intercepted Image, serve / To bear th' Impression to the Brain, and give / The Stroke, by which the Object we perceive."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1713

"The hero's presence deep impression makes; / The scenes his soul and body re-unite / Furnish a voice, produce him to the sight."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

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