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Date: 1727, 1739

"That Bosom, where thy Image dwells!"

— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod

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Date: 1739, 1741

"Tho' Crouds may change, unfaithful as the Wind! / Can They depose the Monarc from his Mind?"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739, 1741

"Great is the Empire of an honest Heart"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739, 1741

"Fortune may change the State, not change the Soul"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739, 1741

"In These, whatever Sense first strikes their Thought, / (Or wrong or right) th' Impression deep is wrought"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739, 1741

"A Scene so sweetly sad, Who fail'd to feel, / Must have an Eye of Flint, or Heart of Steel"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739, 1741

"A Scene, all human Nature must detest! / Yet cou'd the feeling Mother steel her Breast"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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Date: 1739

"But if you have your Masters within your corrupt Mind, how are you Freer than this Slave, who is frighted to his Business by his Master's Frown, and Lash."

— Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738)

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Date: 1739

Reason may be "lost in good Wine," but "All the Fumes will away / That did the bright Regent confine"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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Date: 1739

"What Law of Beauty gives her the Empire over all Hearts?"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

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