updated_at,id,text,theme,metaphor,work_id,reviewed_on,provenance,created_at,comments,context,dictionary 2009-09-14 19:38:43 UTC,13563,"An Author who professes to cure the mental Maladies of his Fellow-Creatures, should, like a skilful Physician, not only [end page 29] take care that the Medicines he prescribes are of a salutary Nature, but that they should be peculiarly proper for the Constitution of his Patient.

Some are of so delicate a Structure, that a strong Dose of Morality, and a Cathartic of Religion, turn their Brains, and make them light-headed: They stare like a second-sighted Scot, and, like him, see Things invisible by the sober Eye of Reason purged from the Films of Fancy.

In this Case, a gentle allegoric Fable should be made use of, decorated with witching Rhymes, as Bolusses are with Leaf-Gold.
(p. 29-30)",Mind's Eye,"Some ""stare like a second-sighted Scot, and, like him, see Things invisible by the sober Eye of Reason purged from the Films of Fancy""",5056,,Posted to C18 Listserve by Kevin Berland (8/9/2005),2005-08-09 00:00:00 UTC,"•Cross-reference: the gold-leaf is also used in Cowper's ""Flatting Mill""","",Eye