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Date: 1725

Freezing blood may congeal around a cold heart

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

As when clouds disperse and restore the day, so may a "sudden flash" rush on the soul

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

A poet shouldn't unfurl his sails in a gale of ungovernable rage

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

"Rais'd on the noble prospect of the mind, / From that proud eminence they view mankind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

In composition " Where chance presides, all objects wildly join'd, / Crowd on the reader, and distract his mind; / From theme to theme unwilling is he tost, / And in the dark variety is lost"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

" He loaths the piece; condemns it; nor can find / The genuin stamp, and image of his mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1725

"A glorious train of images may find, / Preventing hope, and crowding on the mind."

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

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Date: 1739

The mind may wing "it heav'n-ward with extatic Mirth"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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