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Date: 1746, 1753

"Feel the thought's image on the eyeball roll; / Behind that window, sits th' attentive Soul:"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1746

The Sisters "Silence, and Contemplation" may "with eternal beauties deck the mind"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1747

"Stupendous truths! here human wisdom fails, / Lost in a labyrinth of endless thought"

— Gilbert, Thomas (bap. 1713, d. 1766)

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Date: 1747-8

"Lovelace, tell me, if thou canst, what sort of sign must thou hang out, wert thou obliged to give us a clear idea by it of the furniture of thy mind?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1748

"But how will this dismantled soul appear, / When stripped of all it lately held so dear, / Forced from its prison of expiring clay, / Afraid and shivering at the doubtful way?"

— Leapor, Mary (1722-1746)

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Date: 1748

The body is a "frail building falling to decay"

— Pilkington, Laetitia (c. 1709-1750)

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Date: 1747-8

"And he apprehends, that, in the study of Human Nature, the knowlege of those apprehensions leads us farther into the recesses of the Human Mind, than the colder and more general reflections suited to a continued and more contracted Narrative."

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747-8

"The Eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1747-8

"Lovelace, tell me, if thou canst, what sort of sign must thou hang out, wert thou obliged to give us a clear idea by it of the furniture of thy mind?"

— Richardson, Samuel (bap. 1689, d. 1761)

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Date: 1748

Thought is "The hermit's solace in his cell"

— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

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