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Date: 1763, 1767

"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"Where shape, and air, and symmetry divine, / And rays reflected from the source of thought, / That beam intuitive throughout the eye, / The speaking eye, that window of the mind."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"And lo a flourish'd portico enrich'd, / That wears th'embroidery of the Queen it guards, / Where Fancy on her vernal throne presides / O'er all the colours of the painted year, / That charm th'affections, and deceive the eye."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1767

"Stamp the pardon on our hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"And stamps Thine image on our hearts / In purity and love"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"And stamp Thine image on their hearts"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"Our pardon infallibly seal, / And heaven implant in our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"And sure forgiveness sealest / On all our waiting hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1767

"The promise and the prayer is seal'd, / Seal'd on her heart in gospel-peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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