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Date: 1739

"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"My great Redeemer's name--transporting name! / 'Tis graven on my heart, 'tis deep imprest, / Immortal is the stamp; nor life, nor death, / Nor hell, with all its pow'rs, shall blot it thence."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"Thy hand can trace the characters divine, / And stamp celestial beauty on my soul"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"O set me as a signal on thy heart! / And let the deep impression ne'er depart."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"To thee; whatever kind impression's rais'd / In any heart for me, let it be thine!"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"And may the soft impression ne'er be lost! / O set me as a signet on thy heart!"

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"My bosom all thy image shall retain, / The full impression there shall still remain."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: 1739

"Those gifts for nobler purposes assign'd, / To raise the thoughts, and moralize the mind; / The chaste delights of virtues to inspire, / And warm the bosom with seraphic fire; / Sublime the passions, lend devotion wings, / And celebrate the first great cause of things."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: 1739

"Ye happy minds, that free from mortal chains, / Possess the realms where boundless pleasure reigns, / That feel the force of those immortal fires, / And reach the bliss, to which my soul aspires."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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Date: w. 1740-50

"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."

— Amherst [later Thomas], Elizabeth Frances (c.1716-1779)

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