"Led by the joyfulness of that inward, and intelligible sound ... with the eye of the mind ... catching a glimpse, sudden and momentary as it was "

— St. Augustine (354-430)


Date
392-418
Metaphor
"Led by the joyfulness of that inward, and intelligible sound ... with the eye of the mind ... catching a glimpse, sudden and momentary as it was "
Metaphor in Context
led by the joyfulness of that inward, and intelligible sound ... with the eye of the mind [acies mentis] ... catching a glimpse, sudden and momentary as it was ...
Categories
Provenance
Reading Margaret Miles's "Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's "De Trinitate" and "Confessions." The Journal of Religion 63.2 (1983): 129.
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/19/2004

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