The "Soule hath power to know all things, / Yet is she blind and ignorant in all"

— Davies, Sir John (bap. 1569, d. 1626)

Author

Davies, Sir John (bap. 1569, d. 1626)

Work Title

Nosce Teipsum. The Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies.

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Richard Field for Iohn Standish
Date
1599
Metaphor
The "Soule hath power to know all things, / Yet is she blind and ignorant in all"
Metaphor in Context
I know my Soule hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant in all:
I know I am one of Natures litle kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall
Categories
Body::Blindness
Provenance
Reading Bamborough's The Little World of Man (27)
Citation
Nosce Teipsum. The Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies. 1. Of Humane Knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man and the Immortalie Thereof. (London: Printed by Richard Field for Iohn Standish, 1599).
Date of Entry
07/16/2004

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