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Date: 1726, 1781

In Bedlam a "shiv'ring Monarch keeps his awful Court, / And far and wide, as boundless Thought can stray, / Extends a vast imaginary Sway"

— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)

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Date: 1735

"Here every Error of the lawless Mind, / The Monsters of distemper'd Thought we find."

— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)

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Date: 1773

"Madness ensu'd, while Reason fled her Throne."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"Legion of Sin! in Smiles delusive drest, / Whose loathsome Cell's the grand Deceiver's breast"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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