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Date: 1801

"'Let your expertest ministers be sent/ 'His heart against compassion's touch to steel;

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1801

"'Still thy vindictive measures to befriend, / 'And for to-morrow's proof thy soul to steel."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1801

" And, while around their spells accurs'd they shed, / For deeds of foul import his breast they steel'd"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1801

"Remorseless fury steel'd each rugged breast"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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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: c. 1804-1811, 1818

"Urizen lay in darkness & solitude, in chains of the mind lock'd up."

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1807

"Shakespear's page, my Lucy, shall unroll / To thy rapt sight the mirror of the soul"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

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Date: 1810

"Think that you hear them plead from Reason's throne!"

— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)

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