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Date: 1739

"May all English Lads, like you, Boys, / Prove on Shore true Hearts of Gold; / To their King and Country true"

— Phillips, Edward (b. 1708/9)

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Date: 1739

"Nor old Sir H***s, whose Soul is plung'd in Oar, / That Gold can't shut the Grave against Fourscore. "

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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Date: 1739

" If thy Heart is not insensible as Brass, or Steel, once more, at least, let my rash Folly find a Pardon"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"If thy Heart is not insensible as Brass, or Steel, once more, at least, let my rash Folly find a Pardon"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"But come ye purer souls from dross refin'd, / The blameless heart and uncorrupted mind!"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

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Date: 1739

"Yes, Speech is Animi Index, & Speculum; 'tis the Interpreter of the Heart, 'tis the Image of the Soul."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

Speech is "a Mirror that plainly represents to us the most hidden Secrets of us Individuals."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1727, 1739

"My Heart, no Stranger to the Guest [Love], / Flutter'd, and labour'd in my Breast"

— Broome, William (1689-1745); Hesiod

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Date: 1739

"I have had some Scruples, Madam, and opened the Eyes of my Mind upon what I was a doing"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"YET I would not say with some, that the Soul is a meer Rasa Tabula; because I do not think that is a proper Metaphor in this Case."

— Hancock, John (fl. 1739)

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