"The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time, tho' we give them no Encouragement; as the Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea continue several Hours after the Winds are laid."
— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Saturday, May 12, 1711
Metaphor
"The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time, tho' we give them no Encouragement; as the Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea continue several Hours after the Winds are laid."
Metaphor in Context
It is very hard for the Mind to disengage it self from a Subject in which it has been long employed. The Thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time, tho' we give them no Encouragement; as the Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea continue several Hours after the Winds are laid. It is to this that I impute my last Night's Dream or Vision, which formed into one continued Allegory the several Schemes of Wit, whether False, Mixed, or True, that have been the Subject of my late Papers.
(I, 270)
(I, 270)
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Provenance
Reading; found again searching "mind" in Project Gutenberg e-text.
Citation
See Donald Bond's edition: The Spectator, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).
Reading in Addison and Steele, Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator. Ed. Robert J. Allen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.
Reading in Addison and Steele, Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator. Ed. Robert J. Allen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.
Date of Entry
01/29/2009
