"No; let me consider this room [a library] as the great charnel-house of human reason, where darkness and corruption dwell."
— Anonymous
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Date
Thursday, September 4, 1755
Metaphor
"No; let me consider this room [a library] as the great charnel-house of human reason, where darkness and corruption dwell."
Metaphor in Context
Shall I consider ye, O ye books! as a herd of courtiers or strumpets, who profess to be subservient to my use, and yet seek only your own advantage? No; let me consider this room as the great charnel-house of human reason, where darkness and corruption dwell; or, as a certain poet aptly expresses himself,
Where hot and cold, and wet and dry,
And beef, and broth, and apple-pye
Most slovenly assemble.
(p. 841)
Where hot and cold, and wet and dry,
And beef, and broth, and apple-pye
Most slovenly assemble.
(p. 841)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Jonathan Kramnick's Making the English Canon (Cambridge UP, 1999), 32.
Citation
The World (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
03/22/2013
