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Date: 1720

"Your Guilt will stretch your Conscience on the Rack, / You'll be arraign'd, and punish'd for the Fact."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

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Date: 1720

"He [Satan] manacles the Soul with adamantine Chains."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

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Date: 1720

A woman's "Victorious Charms" may may a conquest o'er a lover's heart

— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)

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Date: 1720

"My Love let me thy dear Affection feel, / Imprint me on thy Heart, there stamp me as a Seal; Upon thy Arm let me engraven be, / There fix me as a Seal, love's Signet make thou me."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

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Date: 1720

"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

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Date: 1720

"How savage must he be to learn such Ill! / And sure his very Soul it self was Steel."

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

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Date: 1720

"O'er steely Breasts, oft soothing Prayers prevail"

— Dart, John (d. 1730); Tibullus (c. 54-19 B.C.)

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Date: 1720

"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

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Date: 1720

"Hypocrisie contracts, there is no Room within, / The Heart is fetter'd and enthral'd by Sin."

— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)

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Date: 1720

"Hence Superstition, that tormenting guest, / That haunts with fancy'd fears the coward breas;"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

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