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Date: 1749

"See them to the windows fly, / To the ark of Jesu's breast!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1749

"My heart is melting wax;"

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

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Date: 1755

Had only heaven "stamp'd Omniscience on thy weaker Soul"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1755

"They George's Image in his Coin approve, / Thy pictur'd Mind I in thy Letters love."

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1756

Kings and courts may stain the mind

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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Date: 1756

"O take me! stamp me on thy breast! / Deep let the image be imprest!"

— Moore, Edward (1712-1757)

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Date: 1757

"Another tells how "melts his heart, 'Like wax'"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: 1757

"But has not Hatred found a part, / Deep lodg'd the cavern of thy Heart, / Or started from thine eyes?"

— Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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Date: w. 1739, 1762

"Ye faithless Idols of our Sense, / Here own how vain your fond Pretence, / Ye empty Names of Joy!"

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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Date: w. 1748, 1762

"In Silence hush'd, to Reason's Voice, / Attends each mental Pow'r."

— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)

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