"Beauty's the least prevailing Snare to me; tho' her great Soul makes me admire her Person; yet were she deform'd, Virtue, like the Sun, wou'd shine through every Cloud."

— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott
Date
1701
Metaphor
"Beauty's the least prevailing Snare to me; tho' her great Soul makes me admire her Person; yet were she deform'd, Virtue, like the Sun, wou'd shine through every Cloud."
Metaphor in Context
FREEMAN
Nor had any, till I saw her Virtue! That gave the Wound. Beauty's the least prevailing Snare to me; tho' her great Soul makes me admire her Person; yet were she deform'd, Virtue, like the Sun, wou'd shine through every Cloud.
(V.i, p. 55)
Provenance
Searching in C-H Lion
Citation
At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1701).

Thomas Baker, The Humour of the Age. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by His Majesty's Servants. (London: Printed for R. Wellington and B. Bernard Lintott, 1701). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/18/2013

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