"Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us"
— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
1779
Metaphor
"Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us"
Metaphor in Context
Our affections are indeed the medium through which we may be said to survey ourselves, and every thing else; and whatever be our inward frame, we are apt to perceive a wonderful congeniality in the world without us. And hence, the fancy, when roused by real emotions, or by the pathos of composition, is easily reconciled to those figures of speech that ascribe sympathy, perception, and the other attributes of animal life, to things inanimate, or even to notions merely intellectual.
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Provenance
Reading Wasserman, Earl R. "The Inherent Values of Eighteenth-Century Personification." PMLA 65.4 (1950): 435-63. p. 456
Theme
Meta-metaphorical
Date of Entry
06/01/2006
