A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller James (1706-1744); Molière (1622-1673)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by and for John Watts
Date
1739
Metaphor
A mind may be a mind so "famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with"
Metaphor in Context
CLIMENE.
Oh! my Stars! What is't you say? Can this Proposition be advanc'd by a Person who has the least Revenue in common Sense? D'ye think one can, with Impunity, quarrel point-blank with Reason as you do? And is there, in the truth of the thing, a Mind so famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with? For my part, I confess, I cou'd not find the least Grain of Salt thro' the whole of it: Children by the Ear, had, to my thinking, a detestable Gout: The Cream Tart turn'd my Stomach; and I thought I shou'd have vomited at the Porridge.
Oh! my Stars! What is't you say? Can this Proposition be advanc'd by a Person who has the least Revenue in common Sense? D'ye think one can, with Impunity, quarrel point-blank with Reason as you do? And is there, in the truth of the thing, a Mind so famish'd for Drollery, that can taste the silly things this Play is season'd with? For my part, I confess, I cou'd not find the least Grain of Salt thro' the whole of it: Children by the Ear, had, to my thinking, a detestable Gout: The Cream Tart turn'd my Stomach; and I thought I shou'd have vomited at the Porridge.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1739, 1748, 1755).
Text from The Works of Moliere, French and English. In ten volumes, trans. Henry Baker and James Miller (London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Moliere, French and English. In ten volumes, trans. Henry Baker and James Miller (London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/07/2005
