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Date: 1816

"This was love's doing: from my constant heart / The image stampt by him can ne'er depart"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1817

A certain sense of right and wrong may be "kneaded in a mind so young"

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

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Date: 1822

Reason "from her judgement-seat / Must, with a tender rigour, treat / The venial errors of the mind, / And in severity be kind"

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

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Date: 1823

A sublime power rules the will "And stamps His precepts on the conscious breast"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1823

The "venom'd shafts" of Cupid "empoison mortal joy," "Drawing from heav'n the soul of man to earth, / With foul alloy debasing purest treasure."

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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