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Date: 1741

"No Window to Her Bosom did we need, / The Goodness there appear'd in ev'ry Deed"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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Date: 1741

"Search each his own Breast first, read that with Care, / And mark if no one Crime be written There!"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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Date: 1741

"For Thou who, faulty, wrong'st another's Fame, / Howe'er so great and dignify'd thy Name, / The Muse shall drag thee forth to publick Shame; / Pluck the fair Feathers from thy Swan-skin Heart, / And shew thee black and guileful as thou art."

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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Date: w. 1732, 1743, 1752

Reason may "fix it's Empire o'er [one's] Heart"

— Hammond, James (1710-1742)

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Date: 1752

"The Man, who sharpen'd first the warlike Steel, / How fell and deadly was his iron Heart"

— Hammond, James (1710-1742)

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Date: 1760

"If thus a golden crown can steel his heart, / O may I ne'er behold him while a king!"

— Kenrick, William (1729/30-1779)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

The "Action and Reaction" of different Estates "produces that general and systematic Controul which, like Conscience, pervades and superintends the Whole, checking and prohibiting Evil from every Part of the Constitution"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

A beloved may be a "Regent within" and "sit throned in [a lover's] Heart"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

An affection may get "an habitual Empire in the Mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

There are men as variable as the wind, whose present temper it is as easy to decipher as it is to consult a weather cock

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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