"Sometimes he describ'd the Humors of the Greenwich Usurers, who, as he exprest it, had Hearts of Marble and Entrals of Brass."
— Dunton, John (1659-1732)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Richard Newcome
Date
1691
Metaphor
"Sometimes he describ'd the Humors of the Greenwich Usurers, who, as he exprest it, had Hearts of Marble and Entrals of Brass."
Metaphor in Context
She it is, whose Beauty clips the Wings of a Traveller's swift desire, and begets the ease of his plodding Breast; for her House appears his Journeys end; but her Company multiplies the Reackoning above the reach of Arithmetick. Philaret had the Discourse at Table, which consisted (for the most part) of the antiquity of his Company, he being a Woollen-Draper. Sometimes he describ'd the Humors of the Greenwich Usurers, who, as he exprest it, had Hearts of Marble and Entrals of Brass. All his own proceedings (in Eight years Apprentiship) he related to me, and how long he fetcht up Coals for the Maid, scrapt Trenchers, and made clean Shoes.
(III, p. 405)
(III, p. 405)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
John Dunton, A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes. The First of which contains the Rare Adventures of Don Kainophilus, From his Cradle to his 15th. Year. The like Discoveries in such a Method never made by any Rambler before. The whole Work intermixt with Essays, Historical, Moral and Divine; and all other kinds of Learning. Done into English by a Lover of Travels. Recommended by the Wits of both Universities. 3 vols. (London: Printed for Richard Newcome, 1691). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
06/19/2013
