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Date: 1721

" Oh! seal me, stamp me on thy tender Mind, / And leave the strong Impression deep behind."

— Croxall, Samuel (1688/9-1752); Nestor Ironside

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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: 1728

"Poll performs her Parts / With such Grace and Arts, / That each Night she conquers Hearts, / Both in Pit and Boxes."

— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

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Date: 1731

Heaven stamped perfection on Caroline's mind

— Pilkington, Matthew (1701-1774)

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Date: 1731

"Such! as the softest Bosom steels!"

— Ogle, George (1704-1746); Joannes Secundus Nicolaius

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Date: 1733-1735

"Her Heart must be harder than Steel / Not to soften with such a soft Muse"

— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)

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Date: 1736

"THOU, matur'd by glad Hesperian Suns, / Tobacco, Fountain pure of limpid Truth, / That looks the very Soul; whence pouring Thought / Swarms all the Mind; absorpt is yellow Care, / And at each Puff Imagination burns."

— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)

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Date: 1741, 1753

"Tho' smiles, and tears, obey thy moving skill, / And passion's ruffled empire waits thy will?"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1749

"Stamp Thine image on our heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: w. 1742-1750, 1803

"Ne ought with him availeth sexe or age; / Ne hoary elde, ne tender infant's cries / Can melt his iron heart in any wise"

— Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

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