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Date: 1731

"Say to what friendly Aid we owe / Those Gleams that in the Mind's fair Mirror play."

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1731

"From what rich Fountain flow / Those ripened Beams of intellectual Day"?

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1731

"By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought / That teems to Birth, and glitters into Thought"?

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1731

Say "How Fancy ev'ry Shape puts on, / How kindling Sparks her Form compose, / And whence that ever shining Train / That Memory or Experience shows."

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1731

"And whence that ever shining Train / That Memory or Experience shows"?

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1731

"[C]onstant Flames the Lamp of Reason fill / To light the Judgment and direct the Will."

— Travers, H. (f. 1730)

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Date: 1734

"My free-born thoughts I'll not confine, / Though all Parnassus could be mine."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1735

"He mark'd the Bounds 'tween Brutes and Men, / And KNOW THY SELF made known, / Dark Monsters fled before his Pen, / While Fancy's Mirror shone."

— Anonymous

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Date: 1735

"In vain my weeping eyes thy features traced / (And features speak the passions of the mind)".

— Anonymous

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Date: [1738], 1758

"Consult your mind, consult your glass, / Each charm of sense and youth; / Then own, who changes is an ass, / Nor wonder at my truth."

— Anonymous

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