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Date: August 1745

"Come fill the glass, my hearts of gold, / To Britain's Heroes brisk and bold;"

— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)

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Date: 1753, 1759, 1770

"But still in Fancy's mirror sees / Some more romantic scene would please, / There within a nook most dark, / Where none my musing mood may mark, / Let me, in many a whisper'd rite, / The Genius old of Greece invite, / With that fair wreath my brows to bind, / Which for his chosen imps he twin'd,...

— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)

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Date: 1774-1781

"When I am purified by the light of heaven my soul will become the mirrour of the world, in which I shall discern all abstruse secrets."

— Warton, Thomas, the younger (1728-1790)

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