Your search for
Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
,
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Uncategorized"
,
"Plant"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1762
"An idle mind, like fallow ground, is the soil for every weed to grow in; in it vice strengthens, the seed of every vanity flourishes unmolested and luxuriant; discontent, malignity, ill humour, spread far and wide, and the mind becomes a chaos, which it is beyond human power to call into order a...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1765
"Reason in the bosom pours, / Its growth improves, its fruit matures, / Each counsel of the human brain / Weighs in his scale, and stamps it vain?"
preview | full record— Merrick, James (1720-1769)