"How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil, / To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?"
— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Curll
Date
1728
Metaphor
"How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil, / To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?"
Metaphor in Context
Say, to what friendly Aid we owe
Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?
From what rich Fountain flow
Those ripening Beams of intellectual Day?
By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought,
That teems to Birth, and burnishes to Thought?
How Fancy every Shape puts on?
How kindling Sparks her Form compose,
And whence the constant-shining Train,
That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?
How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil,
To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?
Those Gleams that in the Minds fair Mirrour play?
From what rich Fountain flow
Those ripening Beams of intellectual Day?
By whose fair Pencil is each Image wrought,
That teems to Birth, and burnishes to Thought?
How Fancy every Shape puts on?
How kindling Sparks her Form compose,
And whence the constant-shining Train,
That Mem'ry, or Experience shows?
How Reason's Lamp burns with incessant Toil,
To light the Judgment, and to guide the Will?
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again "reason" and "lamp"
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1727).
The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College Cambridge. (London: Printed in the year MDCCXXVIII [i.e. 1727] For H. Curll in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College Cambridge. (London: Printed in the year MDCCXXVIII [i.e. 1727] For H. Curll in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/29/2005
Date of Review
01/20/2006
