"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Can the troubled Brain / Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?"
Metaphor in Context
BARBAROSSA.
The Rumour lies.--And, yet, your Coward Fears
Infect me!--What!--shall I be terrify'd
By midnight Visions?--Can the troubled Brain
Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?
I'll not believe it.
(p. 55)
The Rumour lies.--And, yet, your Coward Fears
Infect me!--What!--shall I be terrify'd
By midnight Visions?--Can the troubled Brain
Of Sleep out-stretch the Reason's waking Eye?
I'll not believe it.
(p. 55)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 23 entries in ESTC (1755, 1756, 1757, 1760, 1762, 1770, 1771, 1774, 1777, 1788, 1790, 1791, 1794, 1795).
See Barbarossa: A Tragedy. As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1755). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See Barbarossa: A Tragedy. As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1755). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
