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Date: 1697

The soul may be a "Modification or Power of the Body" so that it eventually ceases to act, "either perishing, as a Flame when the Fewel is spent; or returning to its Fountain, whatsoever it was"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1743

"With pleased attention midst his scenes we find / Each glowing thought that warms the female mind"

— Collins, William (1721-1759)

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Date: 1773

"Sighs are incense from a heart sincere"

— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)

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Date: 1773

"May you be enabled, by reading them frequently, to transfuse into your own breast that holy flame which inspired the writer!"

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

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