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Date: 1800

"The mind that labours for a cure works ill / By feeding its own grief; wasting away / Like boiling waters in an useless struggle"

— Bidlake, John (1755-1814)

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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: December 18, 1802

"Then Addington, thy rigour quit, / Nor boast the iron heart of P---;"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1802

"Paint courts, whose sorceries, too seducing bind, / In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind; / Courts, where unblushing Flatt'ry finds the way, / And casts a cloud o'er Truth's eternal ray."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1804

"The daring imp has learn'd to stand his ground; / Well steel'd his heart, and bronz'd his face"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1804

"'Then first with the seducing Cup / 'I tried to steel my Breast, / 'To keep expiring Courage up"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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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: 1804, 1816

"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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