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Date: 1762

"  Jesus, speak my pardon seal'd, / And purify my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"O seal it on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Seal the promise on my heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"On my heart Thy goodness seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1763

"As if some fiend had snatch'd the love of kind, / And hell itself was lodg'd within the human mind"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1763, 1770

"Yes, doubtless, steel'd--but still he show'd a heart, / As soft, as Cleopatra's softest part."

— Thompson, Edward (1738-1786)

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Date: 1763

"Grown old in villainy, and dead to grace, / Hell in his heart, and TYBURNE in his face; / Behold, a Parson at thy Elbow stands, / Low'ring damnation, and with open hands / Ripe to betray his Saviour for reward; / The Atheist Chaplain of an Atheist Lord."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

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Date: 1763

"Explore the dark recesses of the mind, / In the Soul's honest volume read mankind, / And own, in wise and simple, great and small, / The same grand leading Principle in All."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

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Date: 1763

"May I be scorn'd by ev'ry man of worth, / Wander, like Cain, a vagabond on earth, / Bearing about a Hell in my own mind, / Or be to SCOTLAND for my life confin'd, / If I am one amongst the many known, / Whom SHELBURNE fled, and CALCRAFT blush'd to own."

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

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Date: 1764

" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"

— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

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