"And if a bottle does their brains refine, / It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1701, 1703
Metaphor
"And if a bottle does their brains refine, / It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine."
Metaphor in Context
Cheerful in labour when they've undertook it;
But out of humour when they're out of pocket.
But if their belly and their pocket's full,
They may be phlegmatic, but never dull:
And if a bottle does their brains refine,
It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine.
(Part II, p. 42, ll. 600-5)
But out of humour when they're out of pocket.
But if their belly and their pocket's full,
They may be phlegmatic, but never dull:
And if a bottle does their brains refine,
It makes their wit as sparkling as their wine.
(Part II, p. 42, ll. 600-5)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 56 entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1713, 1716, 1717, 1721, 1728, 1730, 1731, 1733, 1740, 1743, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1795).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
See The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). <Link to LION>
Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" <Link to ESTC>
Reading Daniel Defoe. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
Date of Entry
06/08/2010
