...differentiate between significant ambiguities and simple authorial slips. us, in a passage Esmond echoes, that "the mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in...born is to be taken away by any future application" (p. 350). But future applications are necessary and inevitable. In Esmond, we see Steele working over...

...Bemerkenswert, wie Steele in diesem Zusammenhang die Wirkung solcher Kindheitserfahrungen einschätzt: "The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in...born is to be taken away by any future application." 7 Vgl. bes. Dennis' scharfe Angriffe gegen Sir John Edgar — das Pseudonym Steeles in The Theatre...

...of Sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very Soul, and has made Pity the Weakness of my Heart ever since. The Mind in Infancy, is, methinks, like the Body in Embrio, and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any...

...of early experience. Apropos of these memories, Steele wrote in his " Recollections of Childhood," " The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in...born is to be taken away by any future application." From another point of view, all these sentiments are due to incompleteness of recollection, and through...