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AND Literary Period: "French Revolution"

AND Religion of Author: "Evangelical"

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Date: 1791

The mind may be milky

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1791

One may have a "milky mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1791

One may bear a "milky mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1803

"And all the floating thoughts we find / Upon the surface of the mind."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1815

The wavering motions of the mind are like "quivering light" reflected off a confined "crystal flood" in a brass cistern

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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