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Date: 1797

"[M]ark it well, / And stamp the awful moral on your souls"

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

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Date: 1797

" Soft female hearts are prone as wax to melt, / And, true or false, impressions will be felt;"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

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Date: 1797

"Youth's yielding clay too easily receives / The featur'd stamp that cross-ey'd cunning gives"

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

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Date: w. 1766, 1797

" His youth, his comeliness, his country too, / Will stamp him very Curan in her heart"

— 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.