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Date: 1734

"While Gold will make their Minds to bow, / As Fire doe's green Wood, any how."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1704

"Fetch me, said she, a mighty Bowl, / Like Oberon's capacious Soul."

— King, William (1663-1712)

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Date: 1710

Man "With Majesty ... fills great Reason's Throne" and rules the "Subject World"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

Man's "ranging Soul in narrow Bounds contains / All Nature's Works, o'er which in Peace he reigns"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

"Just so the Head of Man contains within / The Intellect, with Rays and Light Divine"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

"The Senses stand around; the Spirits roam / To seize and bring the fleeting Objects home: / Thro' every Nerve and every Pore they pass"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

"The Heart, the Center of the manly Breast, / Just like the Sun, in lovely Purple drest, / Diffuses all the Liquid Crimson round"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

"And as great Phoebus sometimes rages high, / And scorches with his Beams the sultry Sky: / So when the Heart with Rage, or flaming Ire, / Grows warm, or burns with Love's consuming Fire: / The catching Virals spread the Flames afar"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

"As solid Shores contain the liquid Seas, / Just so the Stomach, a soft watry Mass, / Stagnates beneath and fills the lower Space: / Here, Winds, and Rains, and humid Vapours lie, / And these exhal'd with Heat, all upwards fly: / As mantling Clouds conceal the fickly Sun, / Dissolve in Dew and dr...

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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Date: 1710

" All Hearts and Eyes she conquers with her Charms"

— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)

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