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Date: 1713

"Behold him now contemplating that Head, / From which long-since both Flesh, and Brains are fled; / Questioning, if that empty, hollow Bowl / Did not ere while contain the Human Soul."

— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

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Date: 1713

"But silent Musings urge the Mind to seek / Something, too high for Syllables to speak; / Till the free Soul to a compos'dness charm'd, / Finding the Elements of Rage disarm'd, / O'er all below a solemn Quiet grown, / Joys in th'inferiour World, and thinks it like her Own."

— Finch [née], Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

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Date: 1713

"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns"

— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

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Date: 1713

"Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: / Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains / Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule maintains."

— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

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Date: 1713

Cleopatra "justly cou'd a Nobler Empire boast / In Cæsar's Heart, than Ptolomy had lost"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"Now that within Nocturnal Shell / Pale Visionary Glimm'rings dwell, / By Demonstration I'll evince, / And Testimony of the Sense."

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"Affection can th' External Senses blind, / And stamps such deep Impressions on the Mind"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

Wine may gild "the Thought with Chymick Art"

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

Wine may "into Riches" stamp and coin the Heart

— Smith, John (fl. 1713)

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Date: 1713

"The Rafters sink, and bury'd with his Coin / That Fate does with his living Thoughts combine; / For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine."

— Finch [née], Anne, countess of Winchilsea (1666-1720)

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