"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jacob Tonson
Date
1709 [1708]
Metaphor
"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."
Metaphor in Context
With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest
(Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast)
By one great Tryal He resolves to prove
The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love.
If scanning Emma's Virtues, He may find
That beauteous Frame inclose a steady Mind;
He'll fix his Hope, of future Joy secure;
And live a Slave to Hymen's happy Pow'r.
But if the Fair one, as he fears, is frail;
If pois'd aright in Reason's equal Scale,
Light fly her Merits, and her Faults prevail;
His Mind He vows to free from am'rous Care,
The latent Mischief from his Heart to tear,
Resume his Azure Arms, and shine again in War.
(p. 283, ll. 177-90)
(Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast)
By one great Tryal He resolves to prove
The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love.
If scanning Emma's Virtues, He may find
That beauteous Frame inclose a steady Mind;
He'll fix his Hope, of future Joy secure;
And live a Slave to Hymen's happy Pow'r.
But if the Fair one, as he fears, is frail;
If pois'd aright in Reason's equal Scale,
Light fly her Merits, and her Faults prevail;
His Mind He vows to free from am'rous Care,
The latent Mischief from his Heart to tear,
Resume his Azure Arms, and shine again in War.
(p. 283, ll. 177-90)
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At least 38 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1708, 1711, 1713, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1725, 1728, 1733, 1734, 1741, 1746, 1749, 1751, 1754, 1759, 1766, 1768, 1769, 1771, 1773, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1784, 1790, 1793, 1794, 1798).
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1709 [1708]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Reading The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1709 [1708]). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Reading The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Date of Entry
02/25/2004
