"What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!"

— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Date
1763
Metaphor
"What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!"
Metaphor in Context
What a day have I passed! may the idea of it be ever blotted from my mind!
(II, p. 186)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "blot" and "mind" in HDIS (Prose); found again "idea" and "blot"
Citation
At least 10 entries in the ESTC (1763, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1773, 1775, 1782, 1788). [4th edition in 1765, 5th edition in 1769.]

See Frances Brooke, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. In Two Volumes. By the Translator of Lady Catesby's Letters. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763). <Link to ECCO-TCP><Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/24/2005

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