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Date: 1725-6

"And oh my Queen! he cries; what pow'r above / Has steel'd that heart, averse to spousal love!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"O cruel thou! some fury sure has steel'd / That stubborn soul, by toil untaught to yield!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"But sure relentless folly steels thy breast, / Obdurate to reject the stranger-guest"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"The bowls and urns of living stone, are the body which are form'd out of the earth; the bees that make their honey in the cave are the souls of men, which perform all their operations in the body, and animate it; the beams on which the Nymphs roul their webs, are the bones over which the admirab...

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"[T]he body it self was suppos'd to be the infernal receptacle of the Soul, into which she descended as into a prison, from above; this was thought the sepulchre of the Soul, and the cave of Pluto"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"Homer therefore evidently understood that the soul ought to govern and direct the passions, and that it is of a nature more divine than harmony"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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Date: 1725-6

"His heart with rage this new dishonour stung, / Wav'ring his thoughts in dubious balance hung; / Or, instant should he quench the guilty flame / With their own blood, and intercept the shame; / Or to their lust indulge a last embrace, / And let the Peers consummate the disgrace?"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Broome, W. and Fenton, E.

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