The Mind is a Metaphor | Browse the Database

Your search for Politics of Author: "Jacobite"

AND Genre: "Prose Fiction"

AND Literary Period: "Augustan"

AND Metaphor Category: "Plant"

returned 2 results(s) in 0.001 seconds

Date: 1713, 1719

"This Fancy having once taken Root, grew apace, and branch'd it self forth into a thousand vain Conceits."

— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)

preview | full record

Date: 1723

"Cease, prithee, Muse, thus to infest / The barren Region of my Breast, / Which never can an Harvest yield, / Since Weeds of Noise o'er-run the Field."

— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)

preview | full record

This work is CC licensed creative commons

Subscribe to our RSS feed

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.