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Date: 1709

"Souls only can, sedate, receive / Th'Impression such a vast Delight does give"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Honour! the fatal Tumor of the Mind; / From which our Modern Gentry take their Bent, / And think they're Noble, if they're Insolent."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Tho' fled from Justice to evade his Sin, / Can he suppress the living Judge within?"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

Guilt may "to the Soul it's frightful Message speak" while "Terror, Despair, and all the grizly Crew: / Those direful Vultures on [the] Soul shall gnaw"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Nor let the Private Spirit here oppose / With Canting Terms, and Sniv'ling thro' the Nose; / Who tho' it most reviles the Papal Sin, / Sets up a like unfailing Judge within."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Each Sectarist in his Breast believes he there / Has all that Popes ascribe to their Unerring Chair; / And, Unappealable, can there decide / All Truth,--His own Illuminated Guide."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"Never was Man more Gene'rous, Just and Brave, / With Pleasure less seduc'd, or less his Passions Slave."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1709

"O stamp upon my Soul / Some blissful Image of the fair Deceas'd / To call my Passions and my Eyes aside / From the dear breathless Clay."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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Date: 1709

"Ay me! Where roves my Fancy! What kind Dreams / Crowd with sweet Violence on my waking Mind!"

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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Date: 1709

"Bring down the Piece,Urania, from Above, / And let my HONOUR and my LOVE / Dress it with Chains of Gold to hang upon my Heart."

— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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