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Date: 1700, 1703, 1709

"But left th'Impression deep upon my Mind / Of DUNCOMB honour'd, and AUGUSTA kind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1704

"His Thoughts were undisguis'd, and unconfin'd, / As naked as his Body was his Mind.

— Anonymous

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Date: 1704

"The Springs he drank were like his Conscience clear."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1704, 1716

"My Body swoln, and bloated as thy Mind."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1705

"The Soul of Man, before it has received any Impression on it, is compar'd to a Rasa Tabula, by Philosophers, that is, It is as it were, a plain capable of any Impression whatever"

— Coward, William (b. 1656/7, d. in or before 1725)

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Date: 1709

A form may be shot into the soul

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Love, the Soft Seal, by which alone we find / Something of Angel stamp't on Human-kind; / While we, like Wax, to the Impression bow, / And find our Souls are One, we know not how."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"One weeping, only Son She left behind, / With all her Goodness stampt upon his Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Her Mind, 'tis true, the Tyrant [Sorrow] did invade, / But her all-bright'ning Eyes cou'd fear no Shade."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Their Minds, just molded, the Impression took"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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