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Augustan
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Early Modern
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Eighteenth Century
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Restoration (2)
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Motion
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Impressions (1)
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Machine (1)
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Population (1)
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Weather (1)
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Poetry
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Literary Period:
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
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Date: w. 1677, 1702
"Vain wandring Thoughts, that crowd within my Breast / Do oft obstruct my Soul from Solid Rest; / like to vagrant Clouds, obscure the Mind / Which should to serious watching be inclin'd."
preview | full record— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)
Date: 1712, 1796
"How dangerous to let the Devil catch / The mind a roving from its inward watch!"
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
Date: 1723
"Can'st say what diff'rent Turns the Spirits take, / When they of diff'rent Kinds Impressions make; / What vital Springs those Spirits in their Flight / Strike to cause Torment, what to give Delight."
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
Date: 1723
"Say, can your Mind to Heav'n direct her Flight / In ardent Anhelations?"
preview | full record— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)
