"And, to say all in a Word, Where Description alone appears too weak to imprint an Idea on the Mind of a Reader, there the only effectual Remedy is to have Recourse to a Simile."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
Friday, March 19, 1725
Metaphor
"And, to say all in a Word, Where Description alone appears too weak to imprint an Idea on the Mind of a Reader, there the only effectual Remedy is to have Recourse to a Simile."
Metaphor in Context
Comparisons, to conclude this Reflection, can never be proper in Passions, or violent Emotions of Mind; The Imagination is then too much transported, and inflamed, to cast about for cool Resemblances. But in the Mouth of the Poet, that is to say, in the Course of the Narration, and not in the Speeches, they are beautiful, and necessary. They describe Passion well, though they do not express it: And, to say all in a Word, Where Description alone appears too weak to imprint an Idea on the Mind of a Reader, there the only effectual Remedy is to have Recourse to a Simile.
(II, p. 399)
(II, p. 399)
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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
