"The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown."
— Anonymous
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave Maria-Lane; J. Sewell, Cornhill; and J. Debrett, Piccadilly
Date
October, 1784
Metaphor
"The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown."
Metaphor in Context
IX. Prudence through the ground of misery cuts a river of patience, where the Mind swims in boats of tranquillity along the streams of life, until she arrives at the haven of death, where all streams meet.
X. Spite creeps like a snake out of the hedge of deceit or the sand-bed of hypocrisy, and having fermented its venom by basking in the sun of prosperity, aims the most deadly wound at the fairest fame.
XI. The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown.
Prosperities are fine painted tulips,
Innocency white lilies,
The Virtues sweet gilliflowers, roses, violets, and primroses.
Learning savoury herbage,
Affliction rues, wormwood, and rhubarb,
Pride, ambition, extortion, nightshade and hellebore,
Stupidity, poppy,
Sloth and Ignorance, briars and thistles.
(p. 316)
X. Spite creeps like a snake out of the hedge of deceit or the sand-bed of hypocrisy, and having fermented its venom by basking in the sun of prosperity, aims the most deadly wound at the fairest fame.
XI. The mind is a garden where all manner of seeds are sown.
Prosperities are fine painted tulips,
Innocency white lilies,
The Virtues sweet gilliflowers, roses, violets, and primroses.
Learning savoury herbage,
Affliction rues, wormwood, and rhubarb,
Pride, ambition, extortion, nightshade and hellebore,
Stupidity, poppy,
Sloth and Ignorance, briars and thistles.
(p. 316)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "the mind is a" in Google Books
Citation
Anonymous, "A Dozen of Allegories," The European Magazine and London Review (London: Scatcherd and Whitaker, 1784): 316. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
04/16/2011
