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Date: 1800

"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."

— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

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Date: 1803

"Ah, how the human mind wearies herself / With her own wanderings, and, involved in gloom / Impenetrable, speculates amiss!"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

"Twin-brother of the goddess born from Jove, / He dwells not in his father's mind, but, though / Of common nature with ourselves, exists / Apart, and occupies a local home."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

"Oh, Lindorf! various emotions crowd in upon my soul!"

— Boaden, James (1762-1839)

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Date: 1804

"Once more I feel the gladdening touch of hope, and a crowd of delicious images, long banished from my bosom, return, and soothe its sorrows into rest."

— Dimond, William (c. 1784-1837)

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Date: 1804

"Still I perceive thee, in my heart enshrin'd, / Its guardian idol, and its favourite guest."

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1805

"Alas! when ev'ry Muse is fled, / How wretched He who writes for bread! / Who, when the joyous years are flown, / And Reason totters on her throne, / And Fancy fails, and Nature tires, / And Fame herself no more inspires, / And ev'n the sweet return of Spring / No more can make the Poet sing, / T...

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

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Date: w. 1761-2, rev. 1773-4, 1805

"J'abandonne mon esprit à tout son libertinage. Je le laisse maître de suivre la première idée sage ou folle qui se présente, comme on voit dans l'allée de Foy nos jeunes dissolus marcher sur les pas d'une courtisane à l'air éventé, au visage riant, à l'oeil vif, au nez retroussé, quitter celle-c...

— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)

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Date: April 1806

"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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Date: 1806

" I pour'd the cold waters of Malvern in vain; / Was sad in the crowd, where each heart was a stranger"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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