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Date: January 1815

"The lover ceas'd--with bolder stroke / His oar the sparkling crystal broke, / While brighter than the current's brim / Soft Fancy's mirror shone for him."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1819

Thoughts may be called to council

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

The master-passion is not always obeyed

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

Reason may "re-ascend her throne" after a burst of "salutary tears"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

The "war within, these passions in their strife, / If thus protracted, had exhausted life"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

"A brother's warning on thy heart engrave"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

"Such acts will stamp their moral on the soul"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

"'Alas! how soon would doubts again invade / 'The willing mind, and sins again persuade!"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

"'These dreams and fancies easily invade; / 'The mind and body feel the slow disease,"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

"'And dreams are what the troubled fancy sees.'--"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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