"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell
Date
1782
Metaphor
"What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the 'Mind of Man which indeed, is Dark & Intricate, Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.''"
Metaphor in Context
I will not, however, attempt a precise investigation of the interior movements by which I may be impelled: the intricasies of the human Heart are various and innumerable, & its feelings, upon all interesting occasions, are so minute & complex, as to baffle the power of Language. What Addison has said of the Ways of Heaven, may with much more propriety & accuracy be applied to the the Mind of Man which indeed, is
Dark & Intricate,
Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.
(Cancelled Introduction, see p. 945 Oxford edition)
Dark & Intricate,
Filled with wild Mazes, & perplexed with Error.
(Cancelled Introduction, see p. 945 Oxford edition)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Susan C. Greenfield's "Money or Mind? Cecilia, the Novel, and the Real Madness of Selfhood" in SECC Vol. 33, p. 55.
Citation
At least 14 entries in ESTC (1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1796).
Frances Burney, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 5 vols. (London: Printed for T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, 1782). <Link to ESTC>
Frances Burney, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 5 vols. (London: Printed for T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, 1782). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/21/2005
