"I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion."
— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Griffin; for J. Newbury, and W. Nicholl, G. Kearsly
Date
1763
Metaphor
"I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion."
Metaphor in Context
Y. MEADOWS.
I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion.
(III.vii)
I know not, madam, what I either hear or see, a thousand things are crowding on my imagination; while, like one just wakened from a dream, I doubt which is reality, which delusion.
(III.vii)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "imagination" and "crowd" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
See also Love in a Village; a Comic Opera (Dublin: Printed for W. Smith, Sen. A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, Eliz. Watts, W. Sleator, W. Whitestone, T. and J. Whitehouse, J. Potts, S. Watson, 1763). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
Date of Review
04/19/2012
