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Date: 1790

"'Tis thus the arch deceiver, busy still / To ruin man, besets the female heart, / Insinuates evil counsel, and inflames / The hungry passions, that like arid flax / Catch at a spark, and mount into a blaze."

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1791

"Speak, can the ghost of Conscience haunt thy mind?"

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: 1792

Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1792

"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: February 19, 1798

"Whether material substance unrefined, / Owns the strong impulse of instinctive mind, / Which to one centre points diverging lines, / Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines?"

— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

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Date: 1799

"A head of wax should never court the sun."

— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)

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Date: October 1807

"A soul [may be] defiled with every stain / That man's reflecting mind can pain."

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1810

"And yet, my heart, within thy silent cell / Dwells a fair image which is lovelier still."

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1810

"'All this experience tells the Soul, and yet / 'These moral men their pence and farthings set / 'Against the terrors of the countless Debt"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1812

"On Captain Bligh her mind in balance hung-- / Though valiant, modest; and reserved, though young/ Against these merits must defects be set-- / Though poor, imprudent; and though proud, in debt"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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