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Date: 1735, 1745

The soul "Which reasons justly, Its own Thoughts o'er-rules"

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

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Date: 1736, 1743

"Th' identick Shape thy Fancy would retain, / Engraven in eternal Characters / While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain."

— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)

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Date: 1736

"One there was, over whose Heart her Beauty still retain'd its Empire; he was call'd Ochihatou, and had, for many Years, ruled every thing in Hypotofa, tho' Oeros, the King thereof, was living; but, as he had so great a Share in the Adventures of Eovaai, it's proper to give a more particular Acco...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"'Tis true, the Desire of Riches seem'd the ruling and universal Passion among them; but then, they sought not the Gratification by mean Arts, or Projects destructive to their Fellow-Citizens, or shameful to their Country, but by honest Care, and painful Labour; by adhering strictly to their Prom...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"For suppose we could find a Hero, in whom all the Virtues met, and little inferior to the Celestial Genii, he certainly would both merit and possess a Throne in every honest Heart."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"But this Gust of stormy Passion blowing over, he endeavoured to banish all Thoughts on what was impossible to be done, to make way for those on what was not so; and after comparing, examining, and condemning an infinite Number of Projects, which, by turns, presented themselves for Approbation, h...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"She was beginning to make some Reflections on the Meanness of suffering Passions of any kind to get the Mastery of Reason, when a sudden and tumultuous Noise rouzed her from this Resvery, and the Lovers from the Slumber they were just fallen into."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"Have you not suffered your Heart to be usurp'd by the Charms of some Beauty?"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1732, 1736

Reason may over-rule fancy

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)

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Date: 1738, 1868

"Justice and grace support Thy throne, / Set up in every faithful soul"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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