"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
Metaphor in Context
Why do you keep alone?
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on.
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Johnson's and Bailey's dictionaries
Citation
Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.
Date of Entry
06/24/2004
