"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"

— Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Author

Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758)

Work Title

Wealth, or the Woody. A Poem on the South-Sea.

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Jauncy
Date
June, 1720
Metaphor
"Daring and unco' stout he was, / With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass, Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea / With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree"
Metaphor in Context
Illi robur & aes triplex
Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit pelago ratem
Primus, ------

Hor.

Daring and unco' stout he was,
With Heart hool'd in three Sloughs of Brass,
Wha ventur'd first upon the Sea
With Hempen Branks, and Horse of Tree.
Categories
Mineral::Brass
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "brass" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
17 entries in ECCO and 4 in ESTC (1720, 1721, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1776, 1780, 1794, 1797, 1800).

See Wealth, or the Woody: a Poem on the South-Sea. By Mr. Allan Ramsay. To Which Is Prefix’d, a Familiar Epistle to Anthony Hammond Esq; by Mr. Sewell. 2nd ed. corr. (London: Printed for T. Jauncy at the Angel without Temple-Bar, 1720). <1720 2nd edition in Google Books>

Found also in ECCO in Poems by Allan Ramsay (1721, 1731, 1733, 1751, 1760, 1761, 1770, 1797, 1800) and Poems on Several Occasions (1776, 1780, 1794).

Text from Ramsay, Allan. The Works of Allan Ramsay Eds. Burns Martin etc. 6 vols. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1944-1973).
Theme
Horace, Book I, Ode iii
Date of Entry
06/07/2005

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