"The Spirit is active, and loves best to inhabit those Minds where it may meet with the most Work."
— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar
Date
1752
Metaphor
"The Spirit is active, and loves best to inhabit those Minds where it may meet with the most Work."
Metaphor in Context
While the two Combatants were engaged, a grave looking Man, rather better drest than the Majority of the Company, came up to Mr. Booth, and taking him aside, said, "I am sorry, Sir, to see a Gentleman, as you appear to be, in such Intimacy with that Rascal, who makes no Scruple of disowning all revealed Religion. As for Crimes, they are human Errors, and signify but little; nay, perhaps the worse a Man is by Nature, the more Room there is for Grace. The Spirit is active, and loves best to inhabit those Minds where it may meet with the most Work. Whatever your Crime be, therefore, I would not have you despair; but rather rejoice at it: for perhaps it may be the Means of your being called." He ran on for a considerable Time with this Cant, without waiting for an Answer, and ended in declaring himself a Methodist.
Categories
Provenance
HDIS; found again searching
Citation
13 entries in ESTC (1752, 1762, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1780, 1790, 1793).
See Amelia. By Henry Fielding, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Henry Fielding, Amelia, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
See Amelia. By Henry Fielding, 4 vols. (London: A. Millar, 1752). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Henry Fielding, Amelia, ed. David Blewett (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
Theme
Methodism
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
Date of Review
10/23/2003
