The young soul is likened to "a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke"
— Earle, John (1601-1665)
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Date
1628
Metaphor
The young soul is likened to "a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke"
Metaphor in Context
[The young soul is likened to] "a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke"
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Provenance
Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature, (1962), p. 33
Citation
Maclean cites John Earle: Micro-Cosmographie, ed. Edward Arber, London, 1869, p. 21.
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Blank Slate
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
