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AND Literary Period: "Industrial Revolution"

AND Nationality of Author: "Irish or Anglo-Irish"

AND Metaphor Category: "Liquid"

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"It's unquiet waves were of the darkest hue, and gave a lively representation of the various agitations of the human mind."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: Published serially, 1765-1770

"I was melted down and minted anew, as it were, by the unaffected Warmth and Innocence of your Caresses"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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