"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Barber and Henry Clements
Date
1713
Metaphor
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
Metaphor in Context
So when impetuous Passions toss the Soul,
And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll;
Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne,
Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone:
At her Command intestine Discords cease,
And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace.
And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll;
Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne,
Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone:
At her Command intestine Discords cease,
And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace.
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1713).
See Peace. A Poem: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. (London: Printed for John Barber, on Lamberh-Hill; and Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1713). <Link to ESTC>
See Peace. A Poem: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. (London: Printed for John Barber, on Lamberh-Hill; and Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1713). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/28/2004
Date of Review
06/04/2013
