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AND Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century"

AND Gender of Author: "Male"

AND Nationality of Author: "English"

AND Metaphor Category: "Optics"

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Date: w. 1746, 1797

"His youthful breast, by years mature refin'd, / May shine the mirror of thy blameless mind."

— Mason, William (1725-1797)

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Date: 1798

"So, mighty Burke! in thy sepulchral urn, / To fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn"

— Canning, George (1770-1827)

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Date: 1794, 1796, 1797, rev. 1798

"Where'er they rov'd, young Fancy and the Muse / Wav'd high their mirror of a thousand hues."

— Mathias, Thomas James (1753/4-1835)

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