"Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read."
— Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir (1649-1697)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Bently
Date
1691
Metaphor
"Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read."
Metaphor in Context
[...] Now Reading may very properly be compar'd to Eating, and Thinking to Digesting, as therefore to one Hours Eating, we allow many hours for Digesting; so to one hours Reading, we should assign Sufficient time for Meditating, and Digesting, what we have Read. Or else as the one by breeding ill Humours, and obstructing Passages, impairs the Health of the Body; So the other be of no less Prejudice to the understanding, by occasioning Diseases of the Mind.[...]
(p. 94)
(p. 94)
Categories
Provenance
Reading in EEBO
Citation
Text from Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Subjects, 3rd impression (London: Printed for Richard Bently, 1697). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
01/12/2012
