Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 01:37:49 -0500
From: Paul Stone <pas-AT-MNSi.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Enameled In Fire


>> I have been unsuccessful in locating the work of Plutarch that is the 
>> source
>>  of the following reference in Emerson's "Essay on Love."
>>  
>>              Love makes the face of nature radiant with purple
>>  		light, the morning and the night are varied enchantments,
>>  		and in love the single tone of a voice makes our heart
>>  		beat...and all these forms are placed in the amber of
>>  		memory...for the figures, the motions, the words of the
>>  		beloved are not like other images written in water, but,
>>  		as Plutarch said, "enameled in fire."
>>  
>>  Can anyone help?

	I did a search for the word "enamel" in all of Plutarch and it turned up
nothing. Then I searched for "fire" and it turned up hundreds of cases, but
none that seemed to have anything to do with enamel. 

Paul Stone
pas-AT-MNSi.net
London, ON


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