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Date: w. 1805

"Hitherto, / In progress through this Verse, my mind hath look'd / Upon the speaking face of earth and heaven / As her prime Teacher, intercourse with man / Establish'd by the sovereign Intellect, / Who through that bodily Image hath diffus'd / A soul divine which we participate, / A deathless sp...

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Date: w. 1805

"Yes, I remember, when the changeful earth, / And twice five seasons on my mind had stamp'd / The faces of the moving year."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Date: w. 1805

"And I have scarcely pitied him; have felt / A reverence for a Being thus employ'd; / And thought that in the blind and awful lair / Of such a madness, reason did lie couch'd."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Date: 1805

"But Flint itself can teach to feel, / And soon subdue a breast of steel."

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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Date: April 1806

"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! / Oh, come, and make thy downy nest / Once more on his sad heart!"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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Date: 1806

"Go forth, ye glorious conquerors of the mind"

— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)

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Date: 1806

"'Now on the bosom of the list'ning Youth / 'Impress, engrave the sacred form of Truth"

— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)

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Date: 1806

One may possess a great deal of spirit and "sterling merit"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1806

"Tho' party-zeal inflam'd his iron heart, / And prejudice sharp pointed ev'ry dart; / With glowing thoughts, his mind profusely teem'd."

— Jerningham, Edward (1727-1812)

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Date: 1806

" I pour'd the cold waters of Malvern in vain; / Was sad in the crowd, where each heart was a stranger"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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