id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 21513,"",Reading in Google Books,"",2013-07-08 17:08:15 UTC,,7508,"",Letter XXXIII,2018-06-18 14:57:45 UTC,"""You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating.""","I was mightily pleased to perceive by your quotation from Voiture, that you had track'd me so far as France. You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating. This, I think however, can't be said of the Love-verses I last troubled you with, where all (I am afraid) is so puerile and so like the author, that no body will suspect any thing to be borrowed. Yet you, (like a Friend entertaining a better opinion of 'em) it seems search'd in Waller, but search'd in vain. Your judgment of 'em is (I think) very right.--
(Letters to and from Mr. Cromwell, Oct 12, 1710, p. 66)"