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Date: 1794

A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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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

One may have "The throne of Virtue in [his] steadfast heart"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1798

"Law and Reason's Empire to the skies" may "On the firm base of British freedom rise"

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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Date: 1798

"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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