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Date: 1735, 1763

"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

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Date: 1735, 1763

"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

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Date: 1735, 1763

"But equal passions let his bosom rule, / A judgment candid, and a temper cool, / Enlarg'd with knowledge, and in conscience clear, / Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

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Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1735

"Poetical Justice extends only to such as the Law cannot lay hold of, such as are to be tried in Foro Conscientiae, where the Delinquent, being strongly touched by a Resemblance of Himself, may amend."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1735

"The Thinking Faculty ... Sighs to survey a Realm by right its own, / While Passion, [fierce co-heir] usurps the throne; / A second Nero, turbulent in sway, / His Pleasure, Noise; his Life one stormy Day; / Headstrong in love, and headstrong too in hate, / Resolv'd t'enslave the Mob, or sink the ...

— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)

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Date: 1735, 1736

"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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Date: 1735-6

"Yielded reason speaks the soul a slave."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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Date: 1735-6

"Thus human life, unhinged, to ruin reel'd,
And giddy Reason totter'd on her throne."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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Date: 1735-6

"Of one who, should the unkingly thirst of gold, / Or tyrant passions, or ambition, prompt, / Calls locust-armies o'er the blasted land:"

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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Date: 1735

"Tho' Reason's Lord, some ruling Passion's Tool, / The wisest man, in some things, is a Fool"

— Miller, James (1704-1744)

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