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Date: w. 1798-1800, 1814

"Of the individual Mind that keeps her own / Inviolate retirement, subject there / To Conscience only, and the law supreme / Of that Intelligence which governs all."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

In "His pure, perfect Kingdom" God may sway "in the Souls, and Hearts, of all"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Confined, in silence, he conferr'd alone / With Understanding, on his mental Throne"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

"Reason, at his right hand, her place maintain'd, / And all her faithful groups full audience gain'd"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1814, 1816, 1896

" Judgment sat and heard each honest plea, / And fix'd each Verdict with his firm Decree"

— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)

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Date: 1815

One may be a "groveling slave of sense" (e.g., a miser or a epicure)

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

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Date: 1816

An "o'erpow'ring spell may, in spite of "all that reason can suggest," maintain "despotic empire o'er [the] breast"

— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)

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Date: 1816

"He would not yield dominion of his mind / To Spirits against whom his own rebelled."

— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)

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Date: 1816

"[T]o conceal, / With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,-- / Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,-- / Which is the tyrant Spirit of our thought, / Is a stern task of soul."

— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)

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Date: 1817

"Lust is the master passion."

— Gifford, William (1756-1826)

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