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Date: 1796

"Ay: ay: this is none of your modern paper skull'd authors--old Geoffery's head is sound"

— Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841)

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Date: 1796

"A plague on stoicks! / I cannot hoop my heart about with iron, / Like an old beer-butt"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: 1796

The actor " Miss Farren, too, who might animate any thing but a soul of lead, and a face of iron, experienced the same fate" (the fate of being paired with a dull actor)

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: 1796

"My little boy slumbered sweetly: but my anguish steeled my heart against every sentiment of feeling, and compelled me to wake him"

— Anonymous; Kotzebue (1761-1819)

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Date: 1796

"You steel mens' hearts against you!"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: 1796

"Does not the hope of that fill our universities with blockheads--and cram our courts full of barristers, with heads as empty as they leave their clients' pockets?"

— Morton, Thomas (1764-1838)

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Date: February 2, 1796

"But hope is the string that rides a sailor's heart--So, heave a-head, my lads."

— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)

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Date: 1796

"I taught this breast, / Which Truth once made her throne, to forge a lie; / This tongue to utter it"

— Colman, George, the younger (1762-1836)

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Date: February 2, 1796

"Her head's like the island, folks tell on, / Which nothing but monkies can dwell on"

— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)

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Date: February 2, 1796

"Her heart's like a lemon, so nice, / She carves for each lover a slice."

— Hoare, Prince (1755-1834)

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