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Date: 1755

"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Love is by fancy led about"

— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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