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Date: 1773, 1894-1895

"That He, to Whom all Love is due, / Engraves upon pure loving Hearts."

— Byrom, John (1692-1763)

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Date: 1773, 1894-1895

One may learn "her Lesson from within" and "There […] read the Characters imprest / Upon the Mind of ev'ry human Breast,-- / The native Laws prescrib'd to every Soul, / And Love, the One Fulfiller of the Whole."

— Byrom, John (1692-1763)

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Date: 1774

The mind, "With not a character engrav'd, presents / One universal blank."

— Roberts, William Hayward (d. 1791)

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Date: 1776

" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."

— Shaw, Cuthbert (1738-1771)

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Date: 1767, 1778

A "sacred legacy with time shall last" and "On thankful hearts engrav'd, what thou hast done"

— Jones, Henry (1721-1770)

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Date: 1782

Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1785

"Yon starry orbs, / Majestic ocean, flowery vales, gay groves, / Eye-wasting lawns, and heaven-attempting hills / Which bound th' horizon, and which curb the view; / All those, with beauteous imagery, awaked / My ravished soul to ecstasy untaught, / To all the transport the rapt sense can bear; /...

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

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Date: 1785

A ruined mind may be "A blank of Nature, vanish'd every thought / That Nature, Reason, that Experience taught."

— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)

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Date: 1785

Hearts may scarce yield to impression while "The daughter's can soften and melt"

— Lovibond, Edward (bap. 1723, d. 1775)

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