"Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain, / That renders all the Avenues / Of Truth, that in itself is plain, / Impervious and abstruse, / Perplex'd and intricate, / By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate."
— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House
Date
1730
Metaphor
"Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain, / That renders all the Avenues / Of Truth, that in itself is plain, / Impervious and abstruse, / Perplex'd and intricate, / By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate."
Metaphor in Context
III.
All Learning does but strive in vain,
Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain,
That renders all the Avenues
Of Truth, that in itself is plain,
Impervious and abstruse,
Perplex'd and intricate,
By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate.
All Learning does but strive in vain,
Learning! that mazy Cobweb of the Brain,
That renders all the Avenues
Of Truth, that in itself is plain,
Impervious and abstruse,
Perplex'd and intricate,
By that false Engine of our Mind, Debate.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/25/2013
