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Work title:
"Natural History"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Date: 1674
"And therefore for the more probable explication of the Phenomena of the Passions which are not raised in the Rational Soul, I found myself obliged to admit her to have a Sensitive one conjoyned with her, to receive her immediate suggestions, and to actuate the body according to her soveraign wil...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1674
"In Man indeed, it seems not difficult to conceive, that the Rational Soul, as president of all th'inferiour faculties, and constantly speculating the impressions, or images represented to her by the Sensitive, as by a mirrour; doth first form to herself conceptions and notions correspondent to t...
preview | full record— Charleton, Walter (1620-1707)
Date: 1842
"The images of past delight / Have fleeted from her troubled sight, / And left no perfect form behind / On the dim mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Herbert, William (1778-1847)
