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AND Metaphor Category: "War"

AND Religion of Author: "Church of Scotland"

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Date: 1719

"By fortitude of mind he conquest gains / O're sordid pleasures and imagind pains"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1728

Shafts more subtile, may be darted from the Eye and "Thro' softer Hearts with silent Conquest fly"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1729

Against "these conquering Eyes" "no Heart's defended"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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Date: 1733

"Tho ane Enemie captive I viewed your desert / which darted a conquest on my yielding heart"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

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