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Date: 1785

In the "scales of suspense" two fancies may be hung

— MacNally, Leonard (1752-1820)

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Date: 1785

"Love is a lady's profession, / Her heart is so tenderly cast, / Like wax it will take an impression, / But then the impression will last"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: 1788

"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

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Date: 1788

"I own that my heart yields like wax to the impression of the little god"

— Cobb, James (1756-1818)

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Date: 1788

A heart of wax may be "soon hot and soon cold, and yields to a different impression every day"

— Cobb, James (1756-1818)

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Date: 1789

"I would not be thought to undervalue worldly enjoyments, nor outward appearances: but I look into the interior of a man; I study the character, that is my habit."

— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)

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Date: 1789, 1797

"Ah, say, deluded Maid, / Would you, whose mind is pure as winter's snow, / Assort with one distain'd by foulest guilt, / Whose nightly rest the murther'd sprites would break."

— Berkeley, George Monck (1763-1793)

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