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Date: 1723

"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: 1713, 1729

Bacchus may calm a stormy soul and "place ... Reason in its Throne again"

— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)

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Date: 1732

"High o'er the verseful Throng, you stand, alone, / Asserting boundless Fancy's rightful Throne"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1733

"Swell'd with vain Learning, vainer Man conceives, / That 'tis with him the bright Minerva lives; / That she descends to dwell with him alone, / And in his Breast erects her starry Throne."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1733

Base usurpers of the soul may be gone, "and Reason long depos'd regains her Throne"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: [1731?] 1734

"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

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Date: 1736, 1743

"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

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