"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed and published by T. Gardner
Date
1744
Metaphor
"Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
Metaphor in Context
"P. S. Burn this paper, I conjure you, the moment you have read it; but lay the contents of it up in your heart never to be forgotten."
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "paper" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1744, 1746, 1748, 1761).

Text from The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M---rs, and his Sister, Madam du P---y, the Issue of Hon. Ch---es M---rs, Son of the late Duke of R---l---d. Containing Many wonderful Accidents that befel them in their Travels, and interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, in the most polite Courts of Europe. The Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of both Sexes. 2nd ed. (London: Printed and published by T. Gardner, 1744).
Date of Entry
03/11/2005

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