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Date: 1700

One's Heart's may be Cupid's "Throne, yet Rebel Passions Jar,
Which Fire my Veins, and thro' my Blood make War"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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Date: 1700

"Love will resume his Empire in our Breasts, and every Heart, or soon or late, receive and readmit him as its lawful Tyrant"

— Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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"Whilst our own Will our Passions shall restrain, / He [Nassaw] gives us each an Empire where to Reign"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"

— Harrington, James (1611-1677)

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"Reason and Love wage an Eternal War"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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" Love Fights--Love Conquers still-- / And my own Heart is his Triumphant Car"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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One may call his Senses to his aid, and "In vain Rebel," but soon he is "by ev'ry Sense betray'd"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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"All Hearts you Conquer, as you Conquer mine"

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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"In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first impression."

— Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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"Rack'd with my griefs, my Anxious Soul survives, / Dash'd like a ship which with the Billows drives."

— Hopkins, John (b. 1675)

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