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Date: 1793

"Strike the flint of his heart on the steel / Of freedom"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1799

Events "'Together ta'en--they on my mind / 'No good impression leave behind."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1799

"'Th' woes imagination broaches / 'Drive through my brain like mourning coaches."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1801

A lover's heart may be one's throne

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1804

"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1804

The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1804

"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1805

"There, as those cells [Satan's myrmidons] empty found / Where brains in wiser pates abound, / They fill'd them with mephitic gas / From hell, which downward strove to pass, / But, gaining exit through the throat, / By leave of porter, Epiglott, / Vented itself in fustian storm / Rhetorical."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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