"Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1739
Metaphor
"Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?"
Metaphor in Context
GUSTAVUS
No other I esteem it.
Where lives the Man whose Reason slumbers not?
Still pure, still blameless, if at wonted Dawn
Again he wakes to Virtue.
(p. 42)
Provenance
LION
Citation
21 entries in the ESTC (1739, 1753, 1761, 1763, 1773, 1778, 1780, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796).

Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country. A Tragedy. As It Was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. by Henry Brooke (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1739). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
09/16/2013

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