"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Joseph Johnson
Date
1782
Metaphor
"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain"
Metaphor in Context
Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,
And these, reciprocally, those again
.
The mind and conduct mutually imprint
And stamp their image in each other's mint.
Each, sire and dam of an infernal race,
Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
(ll. 564-569, p. 278)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
See Poems by William Cowper (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). <Link to Google Books><Link to ECCO-TCP>

Text from The Works of William Cowper (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).

Reading The Poems of William Cowper, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 262-279.
Date of Entry
12/15/2003

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