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Date: 1731, 1753

"Shines there a captain, form'd, for war's controul, / Born, with the seeds of conquest, in his soul?"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1731, 1753

"I feel her now--th' invader fires my breast; / And my soul swells, to suit the heavenly guest."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1731

"My Soul is torn with a vain War of Passions."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1732

One may "win and hold the Conquest of a Mind"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1732

As music "certain Conquest makes, the Savage Soul refines"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1732

"Shot from her eyes the conquering dart / That found a passage to his heart."

— Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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Date: 1732

"Distrest by a confused Medley of thinking, she threw herself carelesly on a Couch, where amid a Chaos of Reflection, she slept, if, we can properly be said to sleep, (when the Mind fir'd by warring Passions, dreams 'em o'er again) the Chamber Door had but negligently fell too, for the unthinking...

— Boyd, Elizabeth (fl. 1727-1745)

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Date: 1733

"It seems to me absolutely impossible, without such a Help, to keep the Mind easy, and prevent its wearing out the Body, as the Sword does the Scabbard; it is no matter what it is, provided it be but a Hobby-Horse, and an Amusement, and stop the Current Reflexion and intense Thinking, which Perso...

— Cheyne, George (1671-1743)

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Date: 1733

"And happy He, that with prevailing Art / Could gain a Conquest o'er her Virgin Heart"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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Date: 1733

One may "Conquer all Hearts without designing"

— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)

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