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Date: 1722

"Furnish'd with nothing but a faithless Breast, / Where only filthy Lusts and Passions dwell, Like Dirt and Cobwebs in a Hermet's Cell."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1723

"How does this Tyrant lord it in thy Mind? / What Symptoms of his Empire do'st thou find?"

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: 1723

"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: 1723

"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: 1723

"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: August, 1752

"The soften‘d heart, prepar'd to take / Whate'er impressions Love shall make."

— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)

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Date: 1753

"Say, coward learning! long, too long, misled! / If, yet, thou dar'st erect thy dizzy head! / And art not, yet, heart-conquer'd quite, / By power and custom join'd; too, too unequal fight!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1753

"Herald vengeance! swift arise! / Shell, with steel, thy flinty heart!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1755

"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."

— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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Date: 1755

"Love is by fancy led about"

— Granville [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

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