"[W]e are strangers to our selves, as to the inhabitants of America"
— Glanvill, Joseph (1636-1680)
Author
Work Title
Date
1664
Metaphor
"[W]e are strangers to our selves, as to the inhabitants of America"
Metaphor in Context
Whatever I look upon within the amplitude of heaven and earth, is evidence of humane ignorance; For all things are a great darkness to us, and we are so unto our selves: The plainest things are as obscure, as the most confessedly mysterious; and the Plants we tread upon, are as much above us, as the Stars and Heavens. The things that touch us are as distant from us, as the Pole; and we are strangers to our selves, as to the inhabitants of America.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Bredvold, Louis. The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. p. 63.
Theme
Stranger Within
Date of Entry
04/06/2005
