"when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?"
— Donne, John (1572-1631)
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Date
April 18, 1619
Metaphor
"when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?"
Metaphor in Context
when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?
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Provenance
Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 122.
Citation
Donne, John. The Sermons of John Donne. Ed. George R. Potter adn Evelyn M. Simpson. 10 vols. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953-62. 2:244.
Date of Entry
10/04/2006
