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Date: 1793, 1794

"When future years in fancy's mirror rose, / What pleasure 'twas to lead thy opening mind, / Where virtue blossoms, and religion blows!"

— Thomson, James (fl. 1793) [Rev.]

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Date: 1796

"The second was still too young to benefit by my instructions; but in the heart of my eldest I laboured unceasingly to plant those principles which might enable him to avoid the crimes of his parents."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

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Date: 1796

"I suffered not my grief at this circumstance to take root in my mind."

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

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Date: 1796

"Extreme simplicity prevented her from perceiving the aim to which the monk's insinuations tended; but the excellent morals which she owed to Elvira's care, the solidity and correctness of her understanding, and a strong sense of what was right, implanted in her heart by nature, made her feel tha...

— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

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