"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Author

Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Work Title

Historicall Applications. [from KOSMOBREGGIA, or the infancy of the world: With an Appendix of Gods resting day, Edon Garden; Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Fall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejaculations; The four Ages of the world; The Birth of Christ; Also a Century of Historical Applications; With a Taste of Poetical fictions. Written some years since by N. B. ... And now published at the request of his Friends

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Crofts [etc.]
Date
1658
Metaphor
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
Metaphor in Context
75.
Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws,
The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes.
Categories
Mineral::Gold Mineral::Loadstone and Iron Physics::Magnetism
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "gold" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/27/2005

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