"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1702
Metaphor
"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
Metaphor in Context
If, as the wisest of the Wise, have err'd,
I go astray, and am condemn'd unheard;
My Faults you too severely reprehend,
More like a rigid Censor, than a Friend.
Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind,
Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd;
But triumphs still, impatient of Controul,
O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul.
(p. 38, ll. 19-26; cf. p. 52 in 1702 ed.)
I go astray, and am condemn'd unheard;
My Faults you too severely reprehend,
More like a rigid Censor, than a Friend.
Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind,
Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd;
But triumphs still, impatient of Controul,
O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul.
(p. 38, ll. 19-26; cf. p. 52 in 1702 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 47 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1702, 1707, 1710, 1716, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1742, 1749, 1751, 1753, 1755, 1756, 1759, 1766, 1767, 1773, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797).
Text from Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account of his Life and Writings. To Which are Added, His Remains. (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke, 1724).
First published as Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holborn, 1702). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> -- 2nd edition in 1707; 3rd edition, 1710; 4th edition, 1716.
Found also in ECCO in Poetical Works (1779, 1797) and The Works of the English Poets (1790).
Text from Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account of his Life and Writings. To Which are Added, His Remains. (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke, 1724).
First published as Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holborn, 1702). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO> -- 2nd edition in 1707; 3rd edition, 1710; 4th edition, 1716.
Found also in ECCO in Poetical Works (1779, 1797) and The Works of the English Poets (1790).
Theme
Ruling Passion
Date of Entry
04/20/2005
Date of Review
06/06/2014
