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Date: 1803

The mind may feel a "smart"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

The "noxious poppy" is a "quencher of the mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

In one's "front and features" we may admire "Nature unwither'd and a mind entire"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

A "mien majestic" and "dark brows" may show "The tranquil lustre of a lofty mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1815

The mind may be indicated by looks

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: November 1824

"Surely it is no exaggeration to say that no external advantage is to be compared with that purification of the intellectual eye which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world, all the hoarded treasures of its primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored ...

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859)

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