"Oh! I hate the wretched victors: / Fancy would fain paint their pictures."

— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)


Work Title
Date
1726
Metaphor
"Oh! I hate the wretched victors: / Fancy would fain paint their pictures."
Metaphor in Context
Oh! I hate the wretched victors:
Fancy would fain paint their pictures:

I could hiss these hideous heroes,
Slaves before--and after Neros.
(ll. 42-45, p. 89)
Provenance
Reading Roger Lonsdale's Eighteenth Century Women Poets
Citation
Lonsdale, R. Ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
Date of Review
11/24/2011

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