"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."
— Johnson, Charles (1679?-1748)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Wilkins
Date
1726
Metaphor
"How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives, / The first Impression Time, or Custom gives."
Metaphor in Context
RING.
I do my Duty only--from the subtil Frauds of Impostors like these we may learn--
How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives,
The first Impression Time, or Custom gives;
Like feeble Children, in the Dark we err,
And make the very Dangers that we fear:
Wou'd you with Safety thro' Life's Tempest ride?
Let Truth, and Vertue, all your Actions guide.
I do my Duty only--from the subtil Frauds of Impostors like these we may learn--
How the weak Mind a naked Blank, receives,
The first Impression Time, or Custom gives;
Like feeble Children, in the Dark we err,
And make the very Dangers that we fear:
Wou'd you with Safety thro' Life's Tempest ride?
Let Truth, and Vertue, all your Actions guide.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "blank" in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
The Female Fortune-Teller. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. (London: Printed by W. Wilkins, 1726). <Link to ECCO>
Theme
Blank Slate
Date of Entry
03/07/2005
