Fancy is engendered in the eyes, fed with gazing, and dies in its cradle

— Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Author

Hooker [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]

Work Title

Reason [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
Fancy is engendered in the eyes, fed with gazing, and dies in its cradle
Metaphor in Context
Reason is the director of man's will, discovering in action what is good; for the laws of well-doing are the dictates or right reason.
Categories
Body::Life and Death
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

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