"Love is th' unlimited Passion of the Mind, it ranges unconfin'd by Law or Reason"

— Johnson, Charles (1679-1748); Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)


Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Bernard Lintott
Date
1705
Metaphor
"Love is th' unlimited Passion of the Mind, it ranges unconfin'd by Law or Reason"
Metaphor in Context
Y. WELD.
Love is th' unlimited Passion of the Mind, it ranges unconfin'd by Law or Reason, yet I'm forbid that generous Freedom of the Soul.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "law" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1705).

See Fortune in Her Wits. A Comedy. (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1705). <Link to ESTC> [A translation by Charles Johnson of Abraham Cowley’s Naufragium joculare]
Date of Entry
04/25/2005

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