Your search for
Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
,
"Writing"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
AND
Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.003 seconds
Date: 1621
" It was (as I said) once well agreeing with reason, and there was an excellent consent and harmony between them, but that is now dissolved, they often jar, reason is overborne by passion: Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas, as so many wild horses run away with a chariot, and will not ...
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)