"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Suffolk
Date
January 8, 1824
Metaphor
"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
Metaphor in Context
The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly. As I believe my dear son's greatest pleasure from his academical success has arisen out of that which he sees his mother and I have received from it, so my greatest gratification has been from the cordial congratulations of kind firends, and not one of them I can truly say has given me as much sober certainty of waking bliss, as your letter and its enclosure.
(ii, p. 290)
(ii, p. 290)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
The Correspondence of William Wilberforce, eds. Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1846).
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
08/31/2011
