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Date: 1751

"in consequence of which, he mustered up the ideas of his first passion, and set them in opposition to those of this new and dangerous attachment; by which means, he kept the balance in equilibrio, and his bosom tolerably quiet."

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

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Date: 1751

The imagination may be "incessantly haunted" by the "apprehensions of a jail"

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

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Date: 1751

Ideas of a love object with another lover may haunt the imagination

— Smollett, Tobias (1721-1777)

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