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Date: 1773

Philosophers hold the soul to be of no sex

— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

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Date: 1775

The mind may be "weak and sickly"

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

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Date: 1775

One's thought may ache at someone

— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

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Date: 1779

"There are, my Liege, who have with groundless jealousy / Poison'd Lord Edward's mind, and work'd on him / To yield to infamy his spotless Bride."

— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)

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Date: 1788

"The mind's disease, perhaps, I'm not less a stranger to--Oh! trust the noble patient to my care."

— Inchbald [née Simpson], Elizabeth (1753-1821)

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Date: w. 1766, 1797

"Has my moral pencil / So oft portray'd the forms of truth and falshood, / In their just lineaments, to thy mind's eye"

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

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