"But the eye here made use of must be the mind's eye (as <i>Shakespear,</i> with his peculiar aptness of expression, calls it) and so strictly just is this metaphor, that nothing is apparently more frequent than a perverse shutting of this mental eye when we have not an inclination to perceive the things offered to our internal view"
The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
2 entries in ESTC (1754).<br>
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See Fielding, Sarah and Jane Collier, <u>The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable</u>, 3 vols. (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1754). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T141110">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;