Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

To Mr. Robert Atwood. The Kingdom of the Wise Man. [from Horae Lyricae. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books]

London

Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence

1706, 1709

"We are a little Kingdom; But the Man / That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne, / Forms it a large one."

We are a little Kingdom: But the Man
That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne
Forms it a large one, ATWOOD, whilst his Mind
Makes Heaven its Council, from the Rolls above
Draws his own Statutes, and with Joy obeys.
(p. 147 in 1706 ed.)

Government::Kingdom Government::Throne Fetters::Chain Government::Rebellion

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See Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. in Two Books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link to ECCO-TCP>

Titled "True Monarchy" in Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>

Originally found searching in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).

07/09/2004