"The deep Philsopher who turns mankind / Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind, / Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out, / To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout."
— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly
Date
1768
Metaphor
"The deep Philsopher who turns mankind / Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind, / Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out, / To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout."
Metaphor in Context
All who can judge affect not public fame,
Of those that do the paths are not the same:
A grave Historian hardly needs to fear
The rival glory of a Sonnetteer:
The deep Philsopher who turns mankind
Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind,
Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out,
To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout.--
Of those that do the paths are not the same:
A grave Historian hardly needs to fear
The rival glory of a Sonnetteer:
The deep Philsopher who turns mankind
Quite inside outwards, and dissects the mind,
Wou'd look but whimsical and strangely out,
To grudge some Quack his treatise on the gout.--
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1768, 1795).
Fables. By William Wilkie, D. D. Professor Of Natural Philosophy In The University Of St. Andrews. (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, In The Poultry Near The Mansion House; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, at Edinburgh, 1768). <Link to ESTC>
See also The Poetical Works of William Wilkie, D.D. (Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, 1795).
Fables. By William Wilkie, D. D. Professor Of Natural Philosophy In The University Of St. Andrews. (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, In The Poultry Near The Mansion House; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, at Edinburgh, 1768). <Link to ESTC>
See also The Poetical Works of William Wilkie, D.D. (Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, 1795).
Date of Entry
02/22/2006
