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AND Genre: "Poetry"

AND Work title: "A Dialogue"

AND Metaphor Category: "Government"

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Date: 1710

"Blows only pass 'twixt Porters and their Trulls, / Where brutish Rage, instead of Reason, rules, / Those of our Rank, altho' the Cause be great, / Should scorn to jar at such a scoundrel Rate."

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1710

When passion cools, "Reason may again bear Rule"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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Date: 1732, 1736

Reason may over-rule fancy

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

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