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Date: 1729

"So shall not Death, with an unfriendly Frown, / Inglorious, throw thy ruin'd Cottage down"

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1729

"Reason exerts her pure, celestial, Rays, / To guide our Steps thro' Errors weary Maze: / But upstart Passions mount her rightful Throne, / And blindly push our vanquish'd Judgment on."

— Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

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Date: 1729, 1737

"But now no longer mine, / The Reins of Empire I resign: / Let Men submit to Reason's rules, / And be at least designing fools."

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1729, 1737

"She laugh'd at all the puny Arts, / Which conquer other Female Hearts"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1729, 1737

" 'Why wouldst thou follow with delusive Art, / 'So poor a Conquest as a female heart?"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1729, 1737

"This friendly counsel, to the Nymph convey'd, / No small Impression on her Fancy made:"

— Thurston, Joseph (1704-1732)

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Date: 1729

"Oh, let not then waste luxury impair / That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves, / And your own proper happiness creates!"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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Date: 1729

"E'en not all these, in one rich lot combined, / Can make the happy man, without the mind; / Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys / The chain of reason with unerring gaze; / Where fancy lives, and to the brightening eyes, / His fairer scenes, and bolder figures rise; / Where social lov...

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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Date: 1729

"In thy fond Heart proud Conquest vainly reigns, / And Lust of lawless Pow'r thy Bosom stains"

— Harvey, John (fl.1729)

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Date: 1729

"'Their Countrey's Love a gen'rous Warmth imparts, / 'Arms their intrepid Hands, and steels their Hearts."

— Harvey, John (fl.1729)

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