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AND Nationality of Author: "Scottish"

AND Literary Period: "Industrial Revolution"

, "Age of Sensibility"

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Date: 1791

"I have a wonderful superstitious love of mystery; when, perhaps, the truth is, that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind."

— Boswell, James (1740-1795)

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Date: 1793

" When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)

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Date: 1796

"Reason's dying lamp / Scarce brighter burns than instinct in their breast"

— Bruce, Michael (1746-1767)

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