"No Party Heats his Just Designs Controul, / Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul, / Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws, / To give a random Vote against the Laws."
— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1712, 1728
Metaphor
"No Party Heats his Just Designs Controul, / Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul, / Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws, / To give a random Vote against the Laws."
Metaphor in Context
No Party Heats his Just Designs Controul,
Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul,
Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws,
To give a random Vote against the Laws;
Which After-Wisdom would correct in vain,
For Folly register'd's a lasting Stain.
Poor, Senseless Party Engines! Who are taught
To act by Mechanism, not by Thought,
Who speak by rote, and sell their venal Words,
To please Grandees, and smooth Intriguing Lords!
Or like a Judge unknowing what has past,
Gravely consent to him who spoke the last,
Or He who thro' a whole Debate had Snor'd,
And wak'd in time to give the Damning Word.
(Cf. p. 3 in 1712 ed.)
Or Over-rule the Purpose of his Soul,
Him Reason guides, and no wild Passion draws,
To give a random Vote against the Laws;
Which After-Wisdom would correct in vain,
For Folly register'd's a lasting Stain.
Poor, Senseless Party Engines! Who are taught
To act by Mechanism, not by Thought,
Who speak by rote, and sell their venal Words,
To please Grandees, and smooth Intriguing Lords!
Or like a Judge unknowing what has past,
Gravely consent to him who spoke the last,
Or He who thro' a whole Debate had Snor'd,
And wak'd in time to give the Damning Word.
(Cf. p. 3 in 1712 ed.)
Citation
At least 2 entries in the ESTC (1712, 1728).
See The Patriot. A Poem, Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford, &c. Lord High Treasurer of Great-Britain. By Mr. George Sewell. (London: Printed for E. Curll, in Fleetstreet, 1712). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Posthumours [Sic] Works of Dr. George Sewell, Late of Hampstead, Physician. Viz. I. the Tragedy of King Richard the First. II. an Essay on the Usefulness of Snails in Medicine. III. Two Moral Essays, on the Government of the Thoughts, and on Death. To Which Are Added, Poems on Several Occasions, Publishe[d] in His Life-Time. (London: Printed for Henry Curll in Clement’s-Inn, 1728). [Titled "Walpole: or, The Patriot"] <Link to ESTC>
See The Patriot. A Poem, Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford, &c. Lord High Treasurer of Great-Britain. By Mr. George Sewell. (London: Printed for E. Curll, in Fleetstreet, 1712). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Posthumours [Sic] Works of Dr. George Sewell, Late of Hampstead, Physician. Viz. I. the Tragedy of King Richard the First. II. an Essay on the Usefulness of Snails in Medicine. III. Two Moral Essays, on the Government of the Thoughts, and on Death. To Which Are Added, Poems on Several Occasions, Publishe[d] in His Life-Time. (London: Printed for Henry Curll in Clement’s-Inn, 1728). [Titled "Walpole: or, The Patriot"] <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/22/2004
