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Date: 1783, 1838

"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1783

"Elegant speculations are sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind, while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart."

— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)

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Date: w. 1769, 1784

Religion "'Tis fancy all, distempers of the mind / As Education taught us, we're inclined."

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: w. 1769, 1784

"Happy (if Mortals can be) is the Man, / Who, not by Priest but Reason, rules his span:"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: 1784

Cupid is "Ever gaining conquered hearts" by using Miss Hoyland's beauty as a bow

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: 1784

"No, Edwitha--you have a native dignity of mind incapable of degradation or alloy."

— Holcroft, Thomas (1745-1809)

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Date: 1784

" I am form'd horribly robust, as thou art, without a grain of sensibility--a heart of stone, and nerves of cast iron"

— Andrews, Miles Peter (1742-1814)

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Date: 1784

"Pistols prim'd and carbines loaded, / Courage strikes on hearts of steel"

— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)

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Date: 1784

"But, for the furniture within, / Whether it be of brains, or lead, / What matters it, so there's a head?"

— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

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Date: 1784

"Nor is it thinking much, but doing, / That keeps our tenements from ruin"

— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

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