"The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design."
— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies
Date
1779, 1781
Metaphor
"The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design."
Metaphor in Context
The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 3 entries in ESTC (1779, 1781, 1790). [vols. 1 to 5 dates 1779, vols. 5 to 10, 1781)
Text from The Works of Samuel Johnson, new ed., vol. 7 of 12 (London: Rivington, 1823). <Link to Google Books>
See also Samuel Johnson, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, vol. 5 (London: Bathurst et al., 1779). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Samuel Johnson, new ed., vol. 7 of 12 (London: Rivington, 1823). <Link to Google Books>
See also Samuel Johnson, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, vol. 5 (London: Bathurst et al., 1779). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/28/2012
