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Date: 1728

"Your Present's most gentile and kind, / Baith rich and shining as your Mind"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1733

"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1734

"Such the Dalrymples, Father and the Son, / Whose virtuous Minds no servile Chains can wear."

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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Date: 1736

Love and Reason may make war within one's breast

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)

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Date: 1732, 1736

Reason may over-rule fancy

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)

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Date: w. December 1742, 1760

"Honour erected in thy breast its throne, / And kind Humanity was all thy own."

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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