"Squire Groome is no national characteristic of England, but a general representative of any person of the three kingdoms, who likes horse-racing, drinking, &c. preferably to any other happiness; but why he should be the type of the English nation, I cannot see, and therefore leave it to the very jumbling author to explain in the best manner he can; for objects receive strange aspects, as they pass through the camera obscura of his intellect."
— Macklin, Charles (1697-1797)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Burd
Date
1760
Metaphor
"Squire Groome is no national characteristic of England, but a general representative of any person of the three kingdoms, who likes horse-racing, drinking, &c. preferably to any other happiness; but why he should be the type of the English nation, I cannot see, and therefore leave it to the very jumbling author to explain in the best manner he can; for objects receive strange aspects, as they pass through the camera obscura of his intellect."
Metaphor in Context
Squire Groome is no national characteristic of England, but a general representative of any person of the three kingdoms, who likes horse-racing, drinking, &c. preferably to any other happiness; but why he should be the type of the English nation, I cannot see, and therefore leave it to the very jumbling author to explain in the best manner he can; for objects receive strange aspects, as they pass through the camera obscura of his intellect.
(p. 6)
(p. 6)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "camera obscura" in ECCO-TCP
Citation
A Scotsman's Remarks on the Farce of Love a La Mode, Scene by Scene. (London: Printed for J. Burd, 1760). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
09/28/2013
