Reason's view is finite
— Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)
Work Title
Date
1724, 1755
Metaphor
Reason's view is finite
Metaphor in Context
Whether that Spirit which o'er all presides
Infus'd thro' all its equal Motions guides,
Or from the whole distinct, himself unseen,
Conducts and regulates the vast Machine,
Let Heav'n decide; by Reason's finite View
To judge the Diff'rence, wou'd the Doubt renew:
Yet she aspires that Being to explore,
The Source of all, and wond'ring to adore.
Infus'd thro' all its equal Motions guides,
Or from the whole distinct, himself unseen,
Conducts and regulates the vast Machine,
Let Heav'n decide; by Reason's finite View
To judge the Diff'rence, wou'd the Doubt renew:
Yet she aspires that Being to explore,
The Source of all, and wond'ring to adore.
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Provenance
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Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1724, 1755, 1756).
See Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. (London: Printed for John Clarke at the Bible under the Royal-Exchange, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from reissue of 1755 edition: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet, 2nd ed. (London: Printed for T. Lownds, 1756). <Link to ESTC>
Also reading excerpts in Lonsdale's. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
See Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. (London: Printed for John Clarke at the Bible under the Royal-Exchange, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from reissue of 1755 edition: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet, 2nd ed. (London: Printed for T. Lownds, 1756). <Link to ESTC>
Also reading excerpts in Lonsdale's. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
09/01/2004
