Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian Empire

Enter the metaphor.

I know this, too: its first use as metaphor came in June 1832, when Tennyson wrote

No memory labours longer from the deep
Gold-mines of thought to lift the hidden ore
That glimpses, moving up, than I from sleep
To gather and tell o'er

Each little sound and sight.

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