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Date: 1712

Atheists should "No more at Reason's solemn Bar appear, / Hardy no more Scholastic Weapons bear."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1713

Cleopatra "justly cou'd a Nobler Empire boast / In Cæsar's Heart, than Ptolomy had lost"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"Now that within Nocturnal Shell / Pale Visionary Glimm'rings dwell, / By Demonstration I'll evince, / And Testimony of the Sense."

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"Affection can th' External Senses blind, / And stamps such deep Impressions on the Mind"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

Wine may "into Riches" stamp and coin the Heart

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"Ah! Cruel Nymph! to whom is giv'n /A Form more bright, more proud than Heav'n; / Whose scornful Soul, and haughty Breast, / Disdain to make a God their Guest."

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"List'ning I stood, unmov'd as Stock, / My Heart just striking with the Clock;"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"[I]mpetuous Passions" may "toss the Soul, /And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll."

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

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Date: 1713

"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."

— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)

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