Your search for
Religion of Author:
"Deist or Theist"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
AND
Work title:
"Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author [collected in Characteristics]"
AND
Nationality of Author:
"English"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1710, 1714
"For company is an extreme provocative to fancy and, like a hotbed in gardening, is apt to make our imaginations sprout too fast."
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Date: 1710, 1714
"So that, if there be no certain inspector or auditor established within us to take account of these opinions and fancies in due form and minutely to animadvert upon their several growths and habits, we are as little like to continue a day in the same will as a tree, during the summer, in the sam...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)