Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."
— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
Fancy "is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed and fancy dies/ In the cradle where it lies."
Metaphor in Context
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
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
