"Why should it not be the Care of profess'd Visiters, not to contract ill Habits which are always very catching, and fill the Mind, with Spots and Blemishes?"
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Monday, June 22. 1724
Metaphor
"Why should it not be the Care of profess'd Visiters, not to contract ill Habits which are always very catching, and fill the Mind, with Spots and Blemishes?"
Metaphor in Context
Why should it not be the Care of profess'd Visiters, not to contract ill Habits which are always very catching, and fill the Mind, with Spots and Blemishes? a Toast that never had the Small-Pox, would be in a Pannick, at the Appearance of a Face newly mark'd; and Persons who break out with Detraction, have the Small-Pox of the Mind, and are frightful when the Marks are upon them.
(p. 216)
(p. 216)
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ECCO-TCP
Citation
Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/17/2013
