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Date: 1794

"Emily's mind was even so much engaged with new and wonderful images, that they sometimes banished the idea of Valancourt, though they more frequently revived it."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"Verezzi was a man of some talent, of fiery imagination, and the slave of alternate passions."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"Thus circumstanced, she tried to banish reflection, but her busy fancy would still hover over the subjects of her interest, and she heard the clock of the castle strike two, before she closed her eyes."

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...

— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)

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Date: 1794

"Bid your minds then sit calmly on their thrones, amidst the hurly burly of critical attacks."

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

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Date: 1794

"Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!"

— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)

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Date: 1794

"I do know thee brave, and in the breast, where fire-ey'd courage rears her rugged throne, sure honor must inhabit!"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: 1794

The mists of faction may pour around one's head

— Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734-1788)

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Date: 1794

I may act "in obedience to the principle which at present governed me with absolute dominion"

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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Date: 1794

"I would not shackle you with fetters of suspicion; I would have you governed by justice and reason."

— Godwin, William (1756-1836)

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