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Date: 1746

The mind may be eased by disclosing "Our flow of pleasures, and our stream of woes"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The mind may be tainted with sin

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"As river's, by the sun's imbibing ray, / Are in summer quite exhal'd away" so to are "passions when confin'd to selfish love"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The soul may be poured forth in praise

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"We are "Tost on the surges--which our passions raise"

— Ruffhead, James

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