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Date: 1742

"Enter my Heart, and fix Thy Throne / Thy Everlasting Presence there."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill, / My heart shall be Thy throne, / Thy holy, just, and perfect will / Shall in my flesh be done."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1743

"To lift my Vot'ries, in this partial Age, /Pleas'd without Pomp, self-conscious, and alone, / Nor rais'd, thus light, on Fancy's airy Throne"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1745

"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)

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Date: 1745

"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)

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