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Date: w. 1682, 1702

"Chastity, sits as with awful Grace, / Enthron'd i'th' Heart, and sweetly in the Face / Holds forth its Ensign"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

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Date: w. 1678, 1702

"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

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Date: w. 1678, 1702

"[I]n thy Heart reveal / Eternal Life, as the abiding Seal / Of his endeared Love"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

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Date: 1703

In Ovid "Methinks, I see those Passions well exprest, / Which play the Tyrant in the Mortal Breast"

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

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Date: 1703, 1718

"Passions Subjection to their Guide disown, / Insult their Soveraign, and subvert his Throne"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1703, 1718

Fancy may "fickle reign in Reason's Seat, / And Thy wild Empire, Anarchy, uphold"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: 1703, 1718

Tyrant desires subject man to "various Servitude, and endless Change of Pain"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

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Date: w. 1703?

"Descend, O Goddess, to my breast; / There thou may'st reign, unrivall'd and alone, / My thoughts thy subjects, and my heart thy throne."

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)

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Date: 1703

"Reason rules within, and keeps the throne / While the inferior faculties obey, / And all her laws with reluctance own"

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

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Date: 1703

"Virtue its Splendor ever will retain, / And Wisdom still an inward State maintain; / Still in the Soul with a Majestick Grandeur reign."

— Chudleigh [née Lee], Mary, Lady Chudleigh (bap. 1656, d. 1710)

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