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Date: 1804

A "soul-commanding chord" may be "The conqueror of grief, and joy's creative lord"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

" Two men they were by storms of misery driven / To lose the soul's sheet anchor, trust in Heaven!"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

"tho' on his injur'd breast / Impending death his signet had imprest,

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

"Her Brain enlabyrinths the whole heaven of her bosom & loins / To put in act what her Heart wills"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818

"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818

"Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round / Within"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818

Og & Anak watch in the brain which "is the Seat / Of Satan in its Webs; for in brain and heart and loins / Gates open behind Satans Seat to the City of Golgonooza / Which is the spiritual fourfold London, in the loins of Albion"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1804

"Yet shall we, Colman, at these gifts repine? / Implore cold apathy to steel the heart?"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

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Date: 1804

"The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man; & when separated / From Imagination, and closing itself as in steel, in a Ratio / Of the Things of Memory"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1804

"Los took his globe of fire to search the interiors of Albions / Bosom, in all the terrors of friendship, entering the caves / Of despair & death, to search the tempters out"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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