"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Author

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Work Title

The Plain Dealer, No. 66

Place of Publication
London
Date
Friday, November 6. 1724.
Metaphor
"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."
Metaphor in Context
It is, I must confess, the hardest Lesson of Nature, to correct the Extravagancies of Love.--Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding. Neither does it depend, for its Violence, or Moderation, on the Capacity of the Lover, but on the Proportion, in which it actuates him. The Wise Man, in this Case, has no Prerogative, above the Fool. It is in Love, as it in Madness, The more Exalted the Genius, the more unbounded the Raging!--A Wise Man may much better defend himself, than a Fool can; But, when He yields, there is no Difference; because Opinion, in this Passion, always stands in the Place of Reason.
(II, p. 73)
Categories
Government::Sovereign Body::Eyes
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 3 entries in the ESTC (1725, 1730, 1734)

Printed semiweekly. Monday, March 23, 1723-1724 to Friday, May 7, 1725. <Link to ESTC>

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

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.