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Date: 1804

"The tender fair, whose heart is pity's throne, / With ease forgives all errors, but her own"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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Date: 1804

The "tender, feeling heart" is "Compassion's throne"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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Date: 1804

The nine [muses] may "vindicate [sensibility's] empire o'er the mind"

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

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"[L]ove-darting Eyes" may show "How many hearts their empire own"

— Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)

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One may part "Ere love had held long empire in his heart"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

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