The Mind is a Metaphor | Browse the Database

Literary Period
- Early Modern (1152)
- Long Eighteenth Century (942)
- Eighteenth Century (927)
- Age of Sensibility (623)
- Industrial Revolution (439)
- Augustan (364)
- Restoration (242)
- Romantic (223)
- Seventeenth Century (210)
- French Revolution (153)
Metaphor Category
- Body
- Uncategorized (122)
- Light (49)
- Population (34)
- Animals (30)
- Government (30)
- Optics (28)
- Eating and Drinking (27)
- Motion (26)
- Architecture (23)
Genre
- Prose (573)
- Poetry (442)
- Prose Fiction (253)
- Drama (112)
- Translation (111)
- Letter (26)
- Bible, KJV OT (19)
- Bible, KJV NT (12)
- Dictionary (5)
- Bible (2)
Gender of Author
- Male (1146)
- Female (220)
- Unknown (61)
Nationality of Author
- English (796)
- Scottish (138)
- Irish or Anglo-Irish (107)
- American (63)
- French (27)
- German (19)
- Greek (19)
- British (6)
- Roman (6)
- African or Afro-British (5)
Politics of Author
- Whig (176)
- Tory (104)
- Jacobin Sympathies (92)
- From Whig to Tory (73)
- Whiggish (36)
- Opposition Whig (33)
- From Tory to Whig (29)
- Royalist (Pro-Stuart) (25)
- Supporter of Pitt (19)
- Jacobite (17)
Religion of Author
- Anglican (133)
- Dissenter or Nonconformist (67)
- Roman Catholic (51)
- Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies (46)
- Deist or Theist (46)
- Church of Scotland (29)
- Early Christian (27)
- Evangelical (27)
- Anglican (High Church) (26)
- Methodist (22)

Your search for Metaphor Category: "Body"

returned 1432 results(s) in 0.008 seconds

If one weighs crowns and kingdoms against deeds they may "Far, far too light in Wisdom's eye" may seem--"Nor shake the scale, while Reason holds the beam

preview | full record

"It is hitting below the intellect."

preview | full record

« Previous 1 2 … 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 Next »

This work is CC licensed creative commons

Subscribe to our RSS feed

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