"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"

— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)

Author

Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)

Work Title

The history of The Old Testament In verse: With One Hundred and Eighty sculptures: In Two Volumes. Vol. I. From the Creation to the Revolt of the Ten Tribes from the House of David. Vol. II. From that Revolt to the End of the Prophets. Written by Samuel Wesley ... The Cuts done by J. Sturt

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Benj. Cowse and John Hooke [etc.]
Date
1715
Metaphor
"Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set / A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?"
Metaphor in Context
Can Dust-born Men be proud or vain, who know
From whence they come, and whither doom'd to go?
Or can they ought that's mean, when God has set
A Jewel in their earthly Cabinet?
A Soul, of heavenly Seed, of Angel-kind,
And marry'd Matter with Immortal Mind?
Categories
Architecture::Cabinet Mineral::Jewel
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "cabinet" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
09/07/2005

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