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Date: 1737

"Vain Wretch! Ambition fires his Breast, / Impetuous, dire, tormenting Guest!"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"My Mind resumes the thread it dropt before; / Thoughts, which at Hyde-Park-Corner I forgot, / Meet and rejoin me, in my pensive Grott. "

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1739

The mind's "elect interpreter" is "the Tongue"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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Date: 1739

The [soul?] may be taught by the brain instead of the breast

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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