If human souls are of an essence pure, / How fix ideas in them to endure? / And if material, canst not thou, Monro, / The little cells of our ideas show?"
— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
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Date
April, 1783
Metaphor
If human souls are of an essence pure, / How fix ideas in them to endure? / And if material, canst not thou, Monro, / The little cells of our ideas show?"
Metaphor in Context
While metaphysicks rack the sickly brain,
What Memory is can any man explain?
Can any man with any clearness tell
How is produced what we all know so well?
If human souls are of an essence pure,
How fix ideas in them to endure?
And if material, canst not thou, Monro,
The little cells of our ideas show?
Ah! no. For here we ever, ever find
That all philosophers alike are blind.
What Memory is can any man explain?
Can any man with any clearness tell
How is produced what we all know so well?
If human souls are of an essence pure,
How fix ideas in them to endure?
And if material, canst not thou, Monro,
The little cells of our ideas show?
Ah! no. For here we ever, ever find
That all philosophers alike are blind.
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Citation
The Hypochondriack, No. 67 (April, 1783). See also The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
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See also James Boswell, The Hypochondriack, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928).
See also James Boswell, The Hypochondriack, ed. Margery Bailey, 2 vols. (Stanford UP, 1928).
Date of Entry
07/09/2013
