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Date: 1793

"Perish the masses for a burning soul, / That never yet extinguish'd half a coal!"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1793

"But wicked man! what does he, carnal wretch, / With all his horse-like passions on full stretch?"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1794

"PETER taketh a Survey of the Furniture of their Heads."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1794

"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1795

"Still to be serious, Pitt, before we part: / Let Mercy melt the mill-stone of thy heart."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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