"A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole, / And fondly stampt into a Soul"
— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1704, 1715
Metaphor
"A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole, / And fondly stampt into a Soul"
Metaphor in Context
From the refulgent Orb of Day
A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole,
And fondly stampt into a Soul,
T'inform his new-made Progeny of
A glitt'ring Spark the rash Prometheus stole,
And fondly stampt into a Soul,
T'inform his new-made Progeny of
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "stamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1704, 1715).
Text from The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In Four Volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals Never Before Publish'd. With a Key to All his Writings (London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1715). <Link to LION>
See also A Collection of All the Dialogues Written by Mr. Thomas Brown: One of Them Entituled, Democratici Vapulantes, Being a Dialogue Between Julian, and Others, Was Never Before Printed. To Which Are Added, His Translations and Imitations of Several Odes of Horace, of Martial's Epigrams, &c. (London: Printed and sold by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1704). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In Four Volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals Never Before Publish'd. With a Key to All his Writings (London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1715). <Link to LION>
See also A Collection of All the Dialogues Written by Mr. Thomas Brown: One of Them Entituled, Democratici Vapulantes, Being a Dialogue Between Julian, and Others, Was Never Before Printed. To Which Are Added, His Translations and Imitations of Several Odes of Horace, of Martial's Epigrams, &c. (London: Printed and sold by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1704). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
04/07/2005
