Metaphor	Year	Name	Title
"Fair Fancy wept"	1743	Collins, William (1721-1759)	An Epistle: Addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, onhis Edition of Shakespeare's Works
The "shadowy tribes" of the mind join their murmurs in "braided dance"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Ode on the Poetical Character
Heaven and Fancy are "kindred powers"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Ode on the Poetical Character
"Farewell, for clearer ken designed, / The dim-discovered tracts of mind: / Truths which, from action's paths retired, / My silent search in vain required!"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	The Manners. An Ode
The native heart may be read in man	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	The Manners. An Ode
Nature may imprint her seal on the heart	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	The Manners. An Ode
"No more I search those magic shores, / What regions part the world of soul, / Or whence thy streams, Opinion, roll"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	The Manners. An Ode
Science, "pranked in tissued vest," is dressed by Reason, Pride and Fancy and comes like a bride to wed Doubt	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	The Manners. An Ode
The soul may be poured into a "laboured whole"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Ode to Liberty
Thought may be breathed "in numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong"	1746	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Ode to Simplicity
The heart may bleed in sorrow	1749	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr Thomson
Thought may melt	1765	Collins, William (1721-1759)	Written on a Paper which Contained a Piece of Bride Cake given to the Author by a Lady
The heart may melt	1788	Collins, William (1721-1759)	An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
A "warm lay" may melt until "it flows" and fill an "impassioned heart"	1788	Collins, William (1721-1759)	An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
"seems the Counterpart by Heav'n design'd / A Symbol and a Warning to Mankind: / As at some Door we find hung out a Sign, / Type of the Monster to be found within"	1742	Hervey, John, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743)	The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
"The poet says, he makes this courtesan worse than Circe; for she changed the minds and internal disposition of her followers, whereas Circe, as Homer expressly remarks, metamorphosed only their outward form"	1742	Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) and The Reverend William Young (d.1757); Aristophanes (c.448-c.380 B.C.)	Plutus, The God Of Riches. A Comedy. [from Comedies of Aristophanes. viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds, Translated into English: With Notes]
"Socrates, and other ancients, seem to have had particular pleasure in running a parallel between agriculture and the improvement of the mind: But in no respect does the comparison or likeness hold more exactly than in this, that as the ground must be properly prepared for the reception and nourishment of good seed, so the mind must by apposite care be moulded into a fit temperament or disposition for embracing and cherishing the seeds of good doctrine"	1742	Turnbull, George (1698-1748)	Observations upon liberal education, in all its branches: ... designed for the assistance of young gentlemen, ... In three parts. By George Turnbul
"Socrates, and other ancients, seem to have had particular pleasure in running a parallel between agriculture and the improvement of the mind: But in no respect does the comparison or likeness hold more exactly than in this, that as the ground must be properly prepared for the reception and nourishment of good seed, so the mind must by apposite care be moulded into a fit temperament or disposition for embracing and cherishing the seeds of good doctrine"	1742	Turnbull, George (1698-1748)	Observations upon liberal education, in all its branches: ... designed for the assistance of young gentlemen, ... In three parts. By George Turnbul
"Instruction will be but thrown away, it cannot sink into the mind, or take firm root there, so as to fructify, if the mind be not pure and clean, pliable, or docile and open to truth and knowledge, but will quickly be chocked by the opposite illiberal temperature"	1742	Turnbull, George (1698-1748)	Observations upon liberal education, in all its branches: ... designed for the assistance of young gentlemen, ... In three parts. By George Turnbul
"The human mind cannot continue long quite a tabula rasa; some images must of course be gaining upon its affections, and consequently, forming some propensities or habits."	1742	Turnbull, George (1698-1748)	Observations upon liberal education, in all its branches: ... designed for the assistance of young gentlemen, ... In three parts. By George Turnbul
Mad Ambition may taint the mind	1743	Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)	A Pindarick Ode to the Right Hon. the Earl Oxford. Written Soon after the Lady Margaret Harley was Recovered from a Fever. [from Poems on Several Occasions, by Samuel Wesley. The Second Edition, with Additions]
Passions may wage intestine war	1743	Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)	An Ode to the Rev. Daniel Prat, M. A. Occasioned by of His. [from Poems on Several Occasions]
Reason may get into the throne	1743	Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)	An Ode to the Rev. Daniel Prat, M. A. Occasioned by of His. [from Poems on Several Occasions]
In youth "Fancy's mimick Pow'r is warm and strong, / Engraving deeply, and retaining long"	1743	Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)	A Letter from a Guardian to a Young Lady. [from Poems on Several Occasions, by Samuel Wesley. The Second Edition, with Additions]
"The Signet thus cast in the best-wrought Mould, / Imprints no Likeness when the Wax is cold"	1743	Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)	A Letter from a Guardian to a Young Lady. [from Poems on Several Occasions, by Samuel Wesley. The Second Edition, with Additions]