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Date: 1736

"She was beginning to make some Reflections on the Meanness of suffering Passions of any kind to get the Mastery of Reason, when a sudden and tumultuous Noise rouzed her from this Resvery, and the Lovers from the Slumber they were just fallen into."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1736

"Have you not suffered your Heart to be usurp'd by the Charms of some Beauty?"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

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Date: 1732, 1736

Reason may over-rule fancy

— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)

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Date: 1737

"So, from the narrow Limits of the Heart, / The active Soul does vig'rous Life impart / To all the Limbs: it's Sway the Members own, / And wide it's Empire spreads around it's Throne."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Regard thy Powers, O Man! nor heed thy Size: / In piercing Reason thy Advantage lies; / Reason that conquers all, and rules the Skies."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"The Man a nobler Empire gains, / That his own craving Will restrains, / Than he whose Sword and wide Command / Join distant Spain and Lybia's Land."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Alas! by diff'rent Passions I'm oppress'd! / Fierce Love and Hate contend within my Breast."

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"As in the greater World, aspiring Flame, / Earth, Water, Air, make the material Frame: / And thro' the Members a commanding Soul / Infus'd, directs the Motion of the Whole: / So 'tis in Man, the lesser World: the Case / Is Clay, unactive, and an earthly Mass: / But the Blood's Streams the ruli...

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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Date: 1737

"Such were the high Endowments of her Mind, / (To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd)."

— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)

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Date: 1737

"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."

— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)

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