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Date: 1790

"O lovely queen, / Beauty usurps the empire of my heart, / All its affections."

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1790

"[M]y conquer'd heart / 'Has nothing noble or aspiring in it"

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1790

"'Who foils a Persian? Are they not all flint, / 'All steel and iron to the very heart?"

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1790

"'The hero's heart is neither steel nor flint"

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1790

"For what heart, / Not made of steel, could look on such a scene, / Three armies deep and strong, with countless horse, / Chariots untold, innumerable foot"

— Hurdis, James (1763-1801)

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Date: 1791

"The generous Mind expanding into Joy, / While no mean Passion mixt its base Alloy;"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: w. 1780, 1792

"Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start / From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart."

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1792

Rude signs may be expressive of "moral sense / Stamp'd on each heart"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1792

"[T]he heart's decisions" may be "stamp'd / By Nature's seal, and man's primæval laws"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1792

"They bade retentive memory on their mind / Impress each image, in distinctive lines / That mock'd erasure."

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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