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Date: 1746, 1753

"Fear is elusive sorrow, shunning pain; / Active--yet, stop'd--it dims the doubtful brain; / Spirit snatch'd inward, stagnating, by dread, / Slow, thro' the limbs, crawls cold, the living lead: / Form'd to the look, that moulds th' assumer's face, / His joints catch tremblings--life's moist strin...

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1746, 1753

"As in pale churchyards, gleam'd by silent night, / Shou'd some cross'd spectre shade the moon's dim light, / Shudd'ry, the back'ning blood, revolving swift, / Cloggs the press'd heart--stretch'd fibres fail to lift: / Lost, in doubt's hard'ning frost--stopt motion lies, / While sense climbs, gra...

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1746

Scenes of ruin may roll within the breast

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"In ev'ry science, myst'ry, form, and art / Betrays the mask, and shows the double heart"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

Man may be sway'd by his passions and employ his reason as "the sly pimp and pander of his joys"

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"As age come on, and vigorous minds decay / All pleasures sicken, satiate, die away."

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

The living soul breathes through all matter

— Ruffhead, James

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Date: 1746

"Soon as thy heart did feel / The pardon-stamping seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1746

" Justify us by Thy right, / And stamp us with Thy seal"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1746

"His bleeding love 'tis Thine to seal / With pardon on the contrite heart:"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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