"It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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Place of Publication
Dublin
Date
1737, 1743
Metaphor
"It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out."
Metaphor in Context
It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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Citation
Text from Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by and for M. Pepyat, book-seller, in Castle-Street, 1743). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by Sylvanus Pepyat, 1737). <Link to ESTC>
See also Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by Sylvanus Pepyat, 1737). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/09/2017
