"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."

— Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1741)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Manby
Date
1747
Metaphor
"The figures, which must actuate her, remain / As yet quite uncollected in the brain; / Exterior objects have not furnish' yet / Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get."
Metaphor in Context
The figures, which must actuate her, remain
As yet quite uncollected in the brain;
Exterior objects have not furnish' yet
Th' ideal stores which Age is sure to get.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature (New York, Russell & Russell, 1962), 35.
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1748, 1751, 1757, 1766).

Anti-Lucretius of God and Nature, a Poem, Written in Latin By the Cardinal De Polignac: Rendered into English By the Translator of Paradise lost, trans. William Dobson (London: Printed for Richard Manby, 1747). <Link to ECCO>

See also Anti-Lucretius, sive de Deo et natura, libri novem (Paris: Guerin, 1747). <Link to Vol. I> and the 1766 translation by George Canning.
Date of Entry
03/27/2005

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