"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)
Fancy would fain paint their pictures:
I could hiss these hideous heroes,
Slaves before--and after Neros.
(ll. 42-45, p. 89)
Categories
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
