While the book is not meant to be read as a monograph but as a dictionary, many well-versed readers will be tempted to do so anyway, so rich and lush are both language and litany.
American Reference Books Annual
... the database behind the book lets one investigate the verb, instance by instance. The book itself provides a ... Read morebird's eye view of its large terrain, and the reader can easily settle on specific images to investigate in the hundred pages of detailed endnotes.
Modern Philology
... Metaphors of Mind belongs on the shelf of every student of eighteenth-century literature and culture, those interested in the history of cognition, and scholars working in and through novel approaches to history. No doubt we will be discussing this work for some time.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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