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Date: 1755

"What Heart of Steel shall dare t'oppose / And league among his hard'ned Foes?"

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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Date: 1755

"'In glad Submission bow ye down, / ' Nor steel that stubborn Heart."

— Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)

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Date: 1757

"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"His thoughts as silver flow"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"Not sure where found the noble mind: / From vulgar dross and dregs refin'd: / High polish'd--and obdure!"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1785

"The fluctuant mind, by various passions tost, / Now rides aloft, and now immerg'd, is lost"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1785

"Yet patient wait, till grace his will subdue, / The fire his dross, the spirit his heart renew:"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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