"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)


Date
1720
Metaphor
"Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn"
Metaphor in Context
LAURA.
Parthenia's breast is steel'd with real scorn.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/13/2005

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