Your search for
Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
,
"Restoration"
AND
Gender of Author:
"Male"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Container"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Politics of Author:
"Whig"
AND
Work title:
"Spectator, No. 228"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 1711
"There is a Creature who has all the Organs of Speech, a tolerable good Capacity for conceiving what is said to it, together with a pretty proper Behaviour in all the Occurrences of common Life; but naturally very vacant of Thought in it self, and therefore forced to apply it self to foreign Assi...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 1711
"This Curiosity, without Malice or Self-interest, lays up in the Imagination a Magazine of Circumstances which cannot but entertain when they are produced in Conversation."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)