"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)
Author
Work Title
Date
1725
Metaphor
"What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind, / That is thro' want of Education blind!"
Metaphor in Context
S. Will.
Troth, Symon, Bauldy's more afraid than hurt,
The Witch and Ghaist have made themselves good Sport.
What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind,
That is thro' want of Education blind!
Troth, Symon, Bauldy's more afraid than hurt,
The Witch and Ghaist have made themselves good Sport.
What silly Notions crowd the clouded Mind,
That is thro' want of Education blind!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "crowd" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
106 entries in ESTC (1725, 1726, 1727, 1729, 1730, 1731, 1734, 1736, 1737, 1743, 1747, 1748, 1750, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1765, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).
See The Gentle Shepherd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy. By Allan Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, for the author, and by Mr. Thomas Longman, and Mr. James McEwin, London, and by Mr. Alexander Carmichael in Glasgow, 1725).
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
See The Gentle Shepherd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy. By Allan Ramsay. (Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, for the author, and by Mr. Thomas Longman, and Mr. James McEwin, London, and by Mr. Alexander Carmichael in Glasgow, 1725).
Text from The Works of Allan Ramsay, eds. Burns Martin and John W. Oliver, et. al (London and Edinburgh: Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Date of Entry
03/07/2006
