"Shakespeare makes Macbeth solemnly but hopelessly ask the physician if he has any remedy to wear out direful traces from the brain."
— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
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Date
April, 1783
Metaphor
"Shakespeare makes Macbeth solemnly but hopelessly ask the physician if he has any remedy to wear out direful traces from the brain."
Metaphor in Context
Memory is not in a great degree in our power. But still less is forgetfulness. We have all tried it when children, and disturbed in the night by some frightful idea.But we tried it in vain. Shakespeare makes Macbeth solemnly but hopelessly ask the physician if he has any remedy to wear out direful traces from the brain; and the fable of the ancients of the river Lethe, by drinking the waters of which forgetfulness was obtained, is a proof of the general impression that supernatural aid was necessary.
(p. 159)
(p. 159)
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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
