"For these I'll melt my brain into invention, / Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words / As polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears."
— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768) and Jane Collier (bap. 1715, d. 1755)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall
Date
1754
Metaphor
"For these I'll melt my brain into invention, / Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words / As polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears."
Metaphor in Context
--I will mix with you in industry
To please--but whom? Attentive auditors;
Such as will join their profit with their pleasure:
For these I'll prodigally spend myself
And speak away my spirits into air;
For these I'll melt my brain into invention,
Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words
As polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears.
BEN JOHNSON,
Every Man Out of his Humour.
(II.iii.1)
To please--but whom? Attentive auditors;
Such as will join their profit with their pleasure:
For these I'll prodigally spend myself
And speak away my spirits into air;
For these I'll melt my brain into invention,
Coin new conceits, and hang my richest words
As polish'd jewels in their bounteous ears.
BEN JOHNSON,
Every Man Out of his Humour.
(II.iii.1)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "brain" and "coin" in HDIS (Prose Fiction)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1754).
See Fielding, Sarah and Jane Collier, The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, 3 vols. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1754). <Link to ESTC>
See Fielding, Sarah and Jane Collier, The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, 3 vols. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1754). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
