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Date: May 10, 1704

"By the Pulpit are adumbrated the writings of our modern saints in Great Britain, as they have spiritualised and refined them from the dross and grossness of sense and human reason."

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Proud as he is, that Iron-heart retains / Its stubborn Purpose, and his Friends disdains"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Is then the dire Achilles all your Care? / That Iron Heart, inflexibly severe."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"The Gods that unrelenting Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Mind that cannot yield."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Nor from yon' Boaster shall your Chief retire, / Not tho' his Heart were Steel, his Hands were Fire; / That Fire, that Steel, your Hector shou'd withstand, / And brave that vengeful Heart, that dreadful Hand."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"The Furies that relentless Breast have steel'd, / And curs'd thee with a Heart that cannot yield."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Singly to pass thro' Hosts of Foes! to face / (Oh Heart of Steel!) the Murd'rer of thy Race!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Heav'n sure has arm'd thee with a Heart of Steel, / A Strength proportion'd to the Woes you feel."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"Then with his Sceptre that the Deep controuls, / He touch'd the Chiefs, and steel'd their manly Souls"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1715-1720

"The Monarch spoke: the Words with Warmth addrest / To rigid Justice steel'd his Brother's Breast."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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