"She had proceeded thus far in a maze of Thought, when she started to find her self so lost to her Reason, and would have trod back again that path of deluding Fancy."
— Congreve, William (1670-1729)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Peter Buck
Date
Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
Metaphor
"She had proceeded thus far in a maze of Thought, when she started to find her self so lost to her Reason, and would have trod back again that path of deluding Fancy."
Metaphor in Context
She had proceeded thus far in a maze of Thought, when she started to find her self so lost to her Reason, and would have trod back again that path of deluding Fancy; accusing her self of Fondness, and inconsiderate Easiness, in giving Credit to the Letter of a Person whose Face she never saw, and whose first Acquaintance with her was a Treachery, and he who could so readily deliver his Tongue of a Lye upon a Surprize, was scarce to be trusted when he had sufficient Time allow'd him to beget a Fiction, and Means to perfect the Birth.
(p. 76)
(p. 76)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
William Congreve, Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd. A Novel. (London: Printed for Peter Buck, 1692). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/18/2013
