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Date: 1802

The heart of a corps of volunteers may be the monarch's throne

— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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Date: 1802

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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Date: 1803

"[W]rithing Mania sits on Reason's throne, /Or Melancholy marks it for her own"

— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)

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Date: 1803

"Reason's empire o'er the world presides, / And man from brute, and man from man divides"

— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)

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Date: 1803

"Yet laws there are, whose power each being feels, Impress'd on every heart with Nature's seals."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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Date: 1804

The mind may be kept upon her throne "in duty firm and sage"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

"For thou, within the human Mind / Fix'd, as on thy peculiar throne, / Sitt'st like a Deity inshrined."

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1804

The Lord may establish himself in "The heart [his] real throne"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

"The tender fair, whose heart is pity's throne, / With ease forgives all errors, but her own"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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