"When the minde is in a calme, our advice may saile over it with ease; but in a raging tempest the best admonitions run upon a desperate rock"
— Tubbe, Henry (1618-1655)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Gibbs
Date
1659
Metaphor
"When the minde is in a calme, our advice may saile over it with ease; but in a raging tempest the best admonitions run upon a desperate rock"
Metaphor in Context
That mans wisdom is meere folly that reproves another in his wrath. Good counsel is then unseasonable and therefore unreasonable; but when his anger is past he will be more apt to understand his fault, and more ready to mend it. When the minde is in a calme, our advice may saile over it with ease; but in a raging tempest the best admonitions run upon a desperate rock, and their labour is but cast away. Phisicians are not wont to administer in the height of a Feavor: nor will any wise man apply physick to the soul in a distempered fit of madnesse.
(pp. 142-3, in. 74)
(pp. 142-3, in. 74)
Provenance
EEBO
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1659).
Meditations Divine & Morall by H.T. (London: Printed for Robert Gibbs, 1659). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
Meditations Divine & Morall by H.T. (London: Printed for Robert Gibbs, 1659). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
03/08/2004
