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Date: 1785?

"Since, in the steps of clerical degree, / All through the telescope of fancy see"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: 1785?

"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: 1787

"The shield, an emblem of thy soul, displays / Truth, equity and wisdom, hand in hand."

— Glover, Richard (1712-1785)

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Date: 1789

"Deceiving gold was once my only toy, / With it my soul within the coffer lay"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Date: 1792

In the tops of scarce veil'd roots one may find "A winding court where wandering fancy walk'd"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1792

One can "wage war" on his own heart and "conquer it, or perish"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1792

When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1792

"A different store his richer freight imparts-- / The gem of virtue, and the gold of hearts;"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1792

One may have "the large treasure of a godlike mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1792

"Unknown, unfriended, to the Regal Bed: / For in the secret closet of her breast, / Constantia her imperial birth supprest"

— 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.