"When the soul is engrossed by any violent passion, when the imagination forms a lively picture of the charms of a favourite object, represents it as the idol of the heart, adorns it with every attractive grace, and suffers it to make a deep impression on the mind; by degrees the charms, in which we have cloathed and decked it, dazzle the sight, and impose even on ourselves: then wholly engaged thereby, we are insensible to every other object, and misled fo these phantoms, we take our visions for realities."
— Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Ridley; and T. Payne
Date
1773
Metaphor
"When the soul is engrossed by any violent passion, when the imagination forms a lively picture of the charms of a favourite object, represents it as the idol of the heart, adorns it with every attractive grace, and suffers it to make a deep impression on the mind; by degrees the charms, in which we have cloathed and decked it, dazzle the sight, and impose even on ourselves: then wholly engaged thereby, we are insensible to every other object, and misled fo these phantoms, we take our visions for realities."
Metaphor in Context
When the soul is engrossed by any violent passion, when the imagination forms a lively picture of the charms of a favourite object, represents it as the idol of the heart, adorns it with every attractive grace, and suffers it to make a deep impression on the mind; by degrees the charms, in which we have cloathed and decked it, dazzle the sight, and impose even on ourselves: then wholly engaged thereby, we are insensible to every other object, and misled fo these phantoms, we take our visions for realities.
(p. 223)
(p. 223)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1773, 1775).
A Philosophical Essay on Man: Being an Attempt to Investigate the Principles and Laws of the Reciprocal Influence of the Soul on the Body, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Ridley; and T. Payne, 1773) <Link to Vol. II in ECCO_TCP>
A Philosophical Essay on Man: Being an Attempt to Investigate the Principles and Laws of the Reciprocal Influence of the Soul on the Body, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Ridley; and T. Payne, 1773) <Link to Vol. II in ECCO_TCP>
Date of Entry
08/18/2013
