"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"
— Wynne, Edward (1734-1784)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[s.n.]
Date
1768
Metaphor
"How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government?"
Metaphor in Context
[...] Can I suppose you are unacquainted with the undoubted evidence, many of the greatest lawyers have left in works of this kind? Must I remind you, for instance, how Hale explored the depths of divinity, mathematics, and history? How the history of Utopia holds up in the mirror of fancy, the picture of a well policied state, its arts, its laws, and government? Or am I to repeat to you a catalogue of Lord Bacon's writings, before you will hear of him in this respect as "the greatest of mankind?"
(p. 118)
(p. 118)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1768, 1774, 1785, 1791).
See Eunomus: or, Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England. With an Essay on Dialogue. (London: [s.n.], 1768). <Link to ESTC>
See Eunomus: or, Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of England. With an Essay on Dialogue. (London: [s.n.], 1768). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
