"Scarce had we pass'd six Bumpers round, / When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found / My Reason had assum'd its Throne, / And all the Fumes of Love were gone."
— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1713, 1729
Metaphor
"Scarce had we pass'd six Bumpers round, / When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found / My Reason had assum'd its Throne, / And all the Fumes of Love were gone."
Metaphor in Context
Scarce had we pass'd six Bumpers round,
When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found
My Reason had assum'd its Throne,
And all the Fumes of Love were gone.
(Cf. p. 54 in 1713 ed.)
When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found
My Reason had assum'd its Throne,
And all the Fumes of Love were gone.
(Cf. p. 54 in 1713 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1713, 1720, 1729)
See Poems on Several Occasions. By Henry Carey. (London: Printed and sold by J. Kent, at the Black Swan in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; A. Boulter, at the Buck, and J. Brown, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and by most Booksellers, 1713). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. By H. Carey. The Third Edition, Much Enlarged (London: Printed by E. Say, 1729).
See Poems on Several Occasions. By Henry Carey. (London: Printed and sold by J. Kent, at the Black Swan in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; A. Boulter, at the Buck, and J. Brown, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and by most Booksellers, 1713). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. By H. Carey. The Third Edition, Much Enlarged (London: Printed by E. Say, 1729).
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
