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Date: 1805

"Hampton! 'tis thus thy scenes I view, / In Time and Mem'ry's mirror true."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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Date: 1807

"Shakespear's page, my Lucy, shall unroll / To thy rapt sight the mirror of the soul"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

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Date: 1812

"The eye, which speaks the soul divine, / The face, which shews the nobler mind, / As on the mirror living objects shine, / In earth or heavens, what beams there so refin'd?"

— Dyer, George (1755-1841)

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