-
Literary Period
-
Age of Sensibility
-
Early Modern
-
Eighteenth Century
-
Long Eighteenth Century
-
-
Metaphor Category
-
Impressions
-
Liquid
-
Uncategorized (1)
-
- Genre
-
Gender of Author
-
Male
-
-
Nationality of Author
-
French
-
-
Religion of Author
-
Materialist or Mortalist
-
Your search for
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"French"
AND
Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Age of Sensibility"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
,
"Liquid"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
AND
Nationality of Author:
"French"
AND
Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Age of Sensibility"
AND
Religion of Author:
"Materialist or Mortalist"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
,
"Liquid"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.002 seconds
Date: 1748, 1749
"Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagin...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
