"From thence a nobler Flight she did essay, / The Mind's extended Empire to survey."

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for S. Buckley and J. Tonson
Date
1712
Metaphor
"From thence a nobler Flight she did essay, / The Mind's extended Empire to survey."
Metaphor in Context
From thence a nobler Flight she did essay,
The Mind's extended Empire to survey
.
She sung the Godlike Principle of Thought,
And how from Objects by the Senses brought,
The Intellectual Imag'ry is wrought.
How she the Modes of Beings can discern,
A nice Respect, a meer Relation learn:
Can all the thin abstracted Notions reach
Which Grecian Wits, or, Britain, Thine can teach.
(VII, ll. 635-643, p. 350)
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 8 entries in ESTC (1712, 1715, 1718, 1736, 1797).

Text from Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God, 2nd ed. (London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>

Other Online Editions: first edition (also published in 1712) is available <Link to ECCO>. See also 3rd edition (1715) <Link to Google Books>.
Date of Entry
08/10/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.