"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."

— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Dilly [etc.]
Date
1787
Metaphor
"It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason."
Metaphor in Context
SUL.
It is enough--my scruples are at an end--my prejudices, like clouds before the rising sun, vanish before the lights of your superior reason--My love is no longer a foible--you are worthy of empire.
Provenance
HDIS
Date of Entry
08/16/2004
Date of Review
04/19/2012

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