id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 9437,"•Adam wants to know how the world was created. The note in the Longman PL reads ""The metaphor implicit in earlier uses of savoury (see e.g., v 84-5n) is now made an explicit simile. Cp. Davenant, Gondibert (1651) II viii 22: 'For thought Books serve as Diet of the Minde; / If knowledg, early got, self vallew breeds, / By false digestion it is turn'd to winde; / And what should nourish, on the Eater feeds.'"" (p.364). I should enter Davenant in the database.
•I'm not sure I am happy with the proposition. Should this be two entries? REVISIT (10/22/2003)",HDIS (Poetry),"",2003-08-19 00:00:00 UTC,2004-01-28,3636,"",Book VII,2013-06-10 18:11:28 UTC,"""But knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temperance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain; / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.""","Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought:
And thus the Godlike Angel answered mild.
This also thy request, with caution asked,
Obtain; though to recount almighty works
What words or tongue of Seraph can suffice,
Or heart of man suffice to comprehend?
Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve
To glorify the Maker, and infer
Thee also happier, shall not be withheld
Thy hearing; such commission from above
I have received, to answer thy desire
Of knowledge within bounds; beyond, abstain
To ask; nor let thine own inventions hope
Things not revealed, which the invisible King,
Only Omniscient, hath suppressed in night;
To none communicable in Earth or Heaven:
Enough is left besides to search and know.
But knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temperance over appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain;
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.

(Bk. VII, ll. 109-130)"