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Date: 1733-4

"What if the head, the eye or ear repin'd / To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"'Tis in the ruling Passion: there alone, / The wild are constant, and the cunning known, / The fool consistent, and the false sincere; / Priests, Princes, Women, no dissemblers here."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Clodio, the Scorn and Wonder of our days, / Whose ruling passion was the Lust of Praise."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath, / Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Grant but as many sorts of mind, as Moss."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Tis Education forms the vulgar mind: / Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"All Manners take a tincture from our own, / Or come discolour'd thro' our Passions shown."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Or Fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, / Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1734

"Something as dim to our internal view, / Is thus, perhaps, the cause of most we do."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1733-4

"What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide: / And Middle natures, how they long to join, / Yet never pass th'insuperable line!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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