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Date: 1684

"This Youth to dinner came, Intruding fashion, / With certain Friend; Danc'd with that Golden Lass; / Found Courting pause sometimes, no Heart of brass, / Softned, orecame: yet once before beheld; / Woo'd then by Looks, now th' Hand and Tongue reveal'd / ...

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1684

"Proud sturdy Soul, most Iron-temper'd Brest, / As Subtil too; bad Stratagems possest"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1684

"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1684

"Bad Fogs produce in clearer Reason's sky"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1684

"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

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Date: 1685

Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1685

Words entring the narrow Gate of the ear "Through the Ears winding Turnpikes progress make, / And are conducted to the Intellect, / In decent order, have quick audience"

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

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Date: 1685

From "the council of the common Sense" a message "As quick returns: for words are instantly / Dispatch'd in answer"

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

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Date: 1685

"For, as we see in Princes Pallaces, / How all the avenues, and passages / Are strictly guarded, to oppose the rude / Tumultuous entries of the Multitude: / Whilst civil persons, who have business, / Pass through the Guards, and dayly make address / To th'Princes ear: so all the Guards o'th' brai...

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

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Date: 1685

"For who, but one that's rap't out of his wits, / Whose mind is troubled by invading fits, / Would make so great a noise?"

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

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