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Date: 1728

"When Love in an impetuous Torrent flows, / How vainly Reason would its Force oppose; / Hurl'd down the Stream, like Flowers before the Wind, / She leaves to Love, the Empire of the Mind."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1734

Love may take the heart with storm and rule there alone

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1743

"Where had Reason the Dominion, I should have long since expell'd the little Tyrant, who hath made such Ravage there"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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