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Date: 1788

" Blest be that pencil, every art be blest, / That stamps his image deeper on our breast!"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1788

One may be "A leper in the soul"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1788

"Shall I trust the thoughts that rise / And struggle in my panting breast, / Tinted with a thousand dyes, / Image quick on image prest"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

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Date: 1788

"I feel the swelling raptures roll / In surging tides upon my soul"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

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Date: 1788

" My panting soul is all on fire"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

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Date: 1788

"Seize! seize! the glowing images that pass / Like transient shadows o'er the mimic glass!"

— Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828)

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Date: 1788

"But still the vigour of my soul I keep, / And its keen anger burst the bonds of sleep."

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1788, 1803

"Oh! may good angels, kindling in thy breast / The lamp of reason, guard thee from their snares!"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

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Date: 1788

"When sovereign Reason from her throne is hurl'd, / And with her all the subject senses whirl'd, / From sweet HUMANITY, the nurse of grief, / Even thy deep woes, O Phrenzy! find relief."

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

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Date: 1788

Humanity "Assists thy roving fancy in its flight, / To crown thy airy sallies with delight."

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

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