"So the Philosopher would needs be blind, / T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind, / Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd."
— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Bonwicke
Date
1689
Metaphor
"So the Philosopher would needs be blind, / T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind, / Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd."
Metaphor in Context
CORYDON.
So the Philosopher would needs be blind,
T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind,
Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd.
So the Philosopher would needs be blind,
T' improve the nobler Eye-sight of his Mind,
Not to mean earthly Opticks be confin'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye"in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Poems and Translations, Written Upon several Occasions, and To several Persons. By a Late Scholar of Eaton (London: Printed for Henry Bonwicke, 1689)
Date of Entry
04/17/2006
