"[H]aving sucked and drawne the good" (the "marrow and spirit") from books, one must "feed his mind therewith, informe his judgement, instruct and direct his conscience and his opinions, rectifie his will."
— Charron, Pierre (1541-1603); Lennard, Sampson (d. 1633)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1606
Metaphor
"[H]aving sucked and drawne the good" (the "marrow and spirit") from books, one must "feed his mind therewith, informe his judgement, instruct and direct his conscience and his opinions, rectifie his will."
Metaphor in Context
a man [must] gather from bookes the marrow and spirit (never enthrawling himselfe so much as to retaine the words by heart, as many use to do, much lesse the place, the booke, the chapter; that is a sottish and vaine superstition and vanitie, and makes him lose the principall) and having sucked and drawne the good, feed his mind therewith, informe his judgement, instruct and direct his conscience and his opinions, rectifie his will.
(474)
(474)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Frederick Kiefer's Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996), 119.
Date of Entry
10/03/2006
Date of Review
05/26/2009
