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Date: 1763, 1767

"So stern Philosophy severe affirms, / With shrunk abstracted eye, and iron soul."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"The guardian genius of his dawning thought, / Who wide disclos'd to wisdom's sacred ray / The eager inlets of his ample mind, / And pour'd upon each opening mental cell, / The virtue-forming scientific beam / With letter'd and religious radiance fill'd, / The fair expanses of his princely soul, ...

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"Where shape, and air, and symmetry divine, / And rays reflected from the source of thought, / That beam intuitive throughout the eye, / The speaking eye, that window of the mind."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1767

"And lo a flourish'd portico enrich'd, / That wears th'embroidery of the Queen it guards, / Where Fancy on her vernal throne presides / O'er all the colours of the painted year, / That charm th'affections, and deceive the eye."

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1768

"And now elate in fancy's mirrour view, / Those hopeful plains where Mantua's poplars grew."

— Sterling, Joseph (fl. 1765-1794)

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Date: 1769

"His wealth shall circulate through all her veins, / His flowing gold shall warm her vig'rous heart, / And health and plenty visit ev'ry part;"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1770

"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1770

"But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. / As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1770

"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1771

"Immortal Truth his bosom steels, / And guards him glorious to the goal"

— Cunningham, John (1729-1773)

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