"My Thoughts had for so long time been kept as it were, waking, that almost every-thing gave me the Allarm, and this especially, so that I was very uneasie."

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Warner
Date
1724
Metaphor
"My Thoughts had for so long time been kept as it were, waking, that almost every-thing gave me the Allarm, and this especially, so that I was very uneasie."
Metaphor in Context
My Thoughts had for so long time been kept as it were, waking, that almost every-thing gave me the Allarm, and this especially, so that I was very uneasie; but I cou'd not bring Matters to bear, to make my coming to London so clear to my Husband as I wou'd have done; for he lik'd the Place, and had a-mind, he said, to stay a little longer, if it was not against my Inclination; so I wrote my Friend the Quaker, Word, That I cou'd not come to Town yet ; and that besides, I cou'd not think of being there under Spies, and afraid to look out-of-Doors; and so, in short, I put off going for near a Fortnight more.
(p. 398, p. 371 in Penguin)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1724, 1740, 1741, 1742, 1745, 1749, 1750, 1755, 1765, 1774, 1775, ).

See The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards call'd the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II (London: Printed for T. Warner, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>

Reading Daniel Defoe, Roxana, ed. David Blewett (New York: Penguin Books, 1987).
Theme
As it Were
Date of Entry
07/27/2011

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