"When Souls of a superior Form, look Abroad, and discover among their honest Inferiors, Minds capable of the finest Impressions, and only in Danger of being render'd barren by Poverty, Ignorance, and Injuries."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Monday, July 20. 1724.
Metaphor
"When Souls of a superior Form, look Abroad, and discover among their honest Inferiors, Minds capable of the finest Impressions, and only in Danger of being render'd barren by Poverty, Ignorance, and Injuries."
Metaphor in Context
When Souls of a superior Form, look Abroad, and discover among their honest Inferiors, Minds capable of the finest Impressions, and only in Danger of being render'd barren by Poverty, Ignorance, and Injuries; they take a Godlike Pleasure in communicating their own Virtues: they strive, with the most Praise-worthy Charity, to substitute the more influencing Power of their own good Example in the Room of evil Patterns by others, 'till, by turning Injuries into Benefits, they raise their obscure Neighbours, to bright Images of themselves.
(pp. 288-9)
(pp. 288-9)
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Provenance
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
