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Date: 1751

"[T]hat I have concealed my sentiments with so much care, you must impute to my fixed resolution of conquering a passion I could never hope to indulge with innocence"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1751

"[I]f you do not desire to have me miserable, conquer this fatal passion, and do not interrupt my endeavours to restore myself to that tranquillity which you have deprived me of"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1751

"Conquer your passion, if you are able"

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1751

"Your wit, your youth, and beauty, have made an absolute conquest of my heart."

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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Date: 1752

Thoughts may war with one another

— Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

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