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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

Imagination may see shapes that "stir the poison in her heart of Spleen"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"What Spectres mad Suspicion might behold / Pilfering her property, in goods, or gold--"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

One may feel "The sateless longings of a famish'd Soul!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Mind, far more voracious [than the body], reads, and reads, / Still growing greedier whilst it fonder feeds"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Man's intellectual Appetite, in Youth, / Yearns more intense while banqueting on Truth"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Intellect, athirst, intenser thinks, / And finds the drought increasing whilst it drinks"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"The Soul's keen craving's still unsatisfied ... like the Miser, mid profusion pines, / Still poor--still pennyless, 'mongst golden mines!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

An "Imparted Pow'r which conquers Pride, and Lust ... plants Content instead, and rapturous Trust!"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

There was a time when " only miracles and signs, sublime, ... Could conquer Sinners' hearts"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Whose waxen Hearts with warm emotion melt"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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