"The eyes and the ears are the inlets or doors of the soul, through which innumerable objects enter."
— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
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1654
Metaphor
"The eyes and the ears are the inlets or doors of the soul, through which innumerable objects enter."
Metaphor in Context
51.
The eyes and the ears are the inlets or doors of the soul, through which innumerable objects enter; yet is not that spacious room filled, neither doth it ever say it is enough, but like the daughters of the horseleach, cries, "Give, give"; and which is most strange, the more it receives, the more empty it finds itself and sees and impossibility ever to be filled but by Him in whom all fullness dwells.
The eyes and the ears are the inlets or doors of the soul, through which innumerable objects enter; yet is not that spacious room filled, neither doth it ever say it is enough, but like the daughters of the horseleach, cries, "Give, give"; and which is most strange, the more it receives, the more empty it finds itself and sees and impossibility ever to be filled but by Him in whom all fullness dwells.
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11/04/2003
