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Date: 1735

Reason may be "lull'd to Sleep by Idleness"

— Hildebrand, Jacob (1692/3-1739)

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Date: 1736

"Awake, great Common Sense, and sleep no more, / Look to thy self; for then, when I was slain, / Thy self was struck at."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1736

"Physicians cannot dose away [men's] Souls."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

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Date: 1739

A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"I have had some Scruples, Madam, and opened the Eyes of my Mind upon what I was a doing"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)

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Date: 1739

"Ye Angels speak! / For ye alone are like her; or present / Such Visions pictur'd to the nightly Eye / Of Fancy trans'd in Bliss."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1739

"How poor thy Pow'r, how empty is thy Happiness, / When such a Wretch, as I appear to be, / Can ride thy Temper, harrow up thy Form, / And stretch thy Soul upon the Rack of Passion."

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1739

"Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

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Date: 1742

"The poet says, he makes this courtesan worse than Circe; for she changed the minds and internal disposition of her followers, whereas Circe, as Homer expressly remarks, metamorphosed only their outward form"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) and The Reverend William Young (d.1757); Aristophanes (c.448-c.380 B.C.)

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Date: 1745

"Bear Witness, Heaven! Thou Mind-inspecting Eye! / My Breast is pure."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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