"His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass. / The daring Mortal surely wore"
— Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1704, 1715
Metaphor
"His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass. / The daring Mortal surely wore"
Metaphor in Context
His fearless Heart immur'd with tripple Brass.
The daring Mortal surely wore,
Who first the faithless Main durst pass,
And in a treacherous Bark new Worlds explore.
(p. 3, ll. 9-12)
The daring Mortal surely wore,
Who first the faithless Main durst pass,
And in a treacherous Bark new Worlds explore.
(p. 3, ll. 9-12)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "brass" 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>
Theme
Horace, Book I, Ode iii
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
