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Date: 1782

The soul may be "emancipated" and "unoppress'd"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

The mind may slumber sweetly in vice's snares, her "polish'd neck" bent beneath tyranny's "usurp'd command"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

"Neglected talents rust into decay"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

"The mind attains beneath her [Freedom's] happy reign / The growth that nature meant she should attain."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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