"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"

— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Tho. Bennet
Date
1698
Metaphor
"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"
Metaphor in Context
Wherefore lift up the Hands that hang down, and the feeble Knees! Think not so much and so long on the incomparable Character of the Deceas'd, as to forget the true Use You are to make of this afflicting Accident; and to neglect those good Improvements under it, which the Wise and Kind Inflicter expects at Your Hands. You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but Gird up the Loins of Your Mind, and be Ye comforted!
(2nd edition, p. 39)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in EEBO-TCP
Citation
2 entries in EEBO and ESTC (1698).

A Discourse Occasion'd by the Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts. By Francis Atterbury, Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. (London: Printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-moon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1698). <Link to ESTC><Link to 2nd edition in EEBO-TCP> [Some text from second edition.]
Date of Entry
07/31/2014

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