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Date: 1709

"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1709

"Thus in the Picture of our Mind / The Action may be well design'd; / Guided by Law, and bound by Duty; / Yet want this Je ne sçay quoy of Beauty."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

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Date: 1709

A Lady wounded in love may "strive to conquer Hearts, / And triumph o'er their Pain"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1709

A form may be shot into the soul

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

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Date: 1709

"Love, the Soft Seal, by which alone we find / Something of Angel stamp't on Human-kind; / While we, like Wax, to the Impression bow, / And find our Souls are One, we know not how."

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

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Date: 1709

"One weeping, only Son She left behind, / With all her Goodness stampt upon his Mind"

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

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Date: 1709

"Her Mind, 'tis true, the Tyrant [Sorrow] did invade, / But her all-bright'ning Eyes cou'd fear no Shade."

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

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Date: 1709

"Their Minds, just molded, the Impression took"

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

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Date: 1709

"For they have Hearts Impression to receive, / And you have Eyes to conquer and enslave."

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

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Date: 1709

"In Solid Dullness fixt, no Charms, no Art / Of Beauty makes Impression on thy Heart:"

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

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