"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff
Date
1706, 1709
Metaphor
"But let thine Image ever dwell / Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart."
Metaphor in Context
I hold no more Commerce with Hell,
My dearest Lusts shall all depart;
But let thine Image ever dwell
Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart.
(p. 134; cf. p. 26 in 1706 ed.)
My dearest Lusts shall all depart;
But let thine Image ever dwell
Stampt as a Seal upon my Heart.
(p. 134; cf. p. 26 in 1706 ed.)
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Provenance
Searching "stamp" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "seal"
Citation
Over 35 entries in ESTC (1706, 1709, 1715, 1731, 1737, 1743, 1748, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1758, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1770, 1772, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799). Compare two-book and three-book versions.
See 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>
Titled "The Love of Christ on His Cross and on His Throne" in 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>
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).
See 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>
Titled "The Love of Christ on His Cross and on His Throne" in 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>
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).
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
Date of Review
02/07/2014
