"She through the porch and inlet of each sense / Dropt in ambrosial oils till she reviv'd."

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

Author

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

Work Title

Inlet [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
"She through the porch and inlet of each sense / Dropt in ambrosial oils till she reviv'd."
Metaphor in Context
She through the porch and inlet of each sense
Dropt in ambrosial oils till she reviv'd.
Categories
Architecture::Inlet
Provenance
Reading Johnson'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
08/10/2005

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