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Date: 1773

"A deep impression on my mind / This farewel scene has left behind"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"'Grief, like a canker-worm at heart, / 'Had ravag'd from his inmost cell;"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

A wasp flies up a lion's nose and "To the extremest verge ascends, / There all his waspish venom spends, / And near the brain's monastic cell / He pours his macerating spell"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"'How sweetly Women bill and coo! [...] 'No gall finds room within their breast, / 'There Turtle Love erects his nest."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"Her form was beauty's self, thro' which refin'd / Shone, like a jewel chrystal-clos'd, her mind"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"Madness ensu'd, while Reason fled her Throne."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"Legion of Sin! in Smiles delusive drest, / Whose loathsome Cell's the grand Deceiver's breast"

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1773

"Within each willing heart [the Royal Ebor] rais'd his throne."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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Date: 1778

Stocks and mercury may stand "All on the elevation, madam, as if they kept time with my passion."

— Robertson, James (fl.1768-1788)

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