"Tis but a brief and compendious flame, shut up, and imprison'd in a narrow compasse"
— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell
Date
1652
Metaphor
"Tis but a brief and compendious flame, shut up, and imprison'd in a narrow compasse"
Metaphor in Context
"Tis but a brief and compendious flame, shut up, and imprison'd in a narrow compasse. How farre distant is it from the beauty of a Starre? How farre from the brightnesse of a Sun? ... God never intended that a creature should rest satisfied with its own candle-light, but that it should run to the fountain of light, and sunne it self in the presence of its God.
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Categories
Provenance
Reading S. H. Clark's "Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered" in JHI 59:2 (1998) p. 261
Citation
Nathanael Culverwel, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, with Several Other Treatises (London: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, 1652). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/21/2005
