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Date: 1755

"Prest with heart corroding grief and years, / To the gay court a rural shed prefers."

— Pope [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, / A lad of life, and imp of fame."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Such iron hearts we are, and such / The base barbarity of human kind."

— Rowe [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"

— Butler [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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