"Of brass his heart who durst explore,-- / Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,"
— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Lawton Gilliver
Date
1734
Metaphor
"Of brass his heart who durst explore,-- / Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,"
Metaphor in Context
Of brass his heart who durst explore,--
Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,
Who, when explored, the secret durst explain,--
How, in one instant, at one blow,
The maiden's sigh, the mother's throe,
Of half a widow'd land, to render vain.
Lock'd up in triple brass, and more,
Who, when explored, the secret durst explain,--
How, in one instant, at one blow,
The maiden's sigh, the mother's throe,
Of half a widow'd land, to render vain.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "brass" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1735).
See The Foreign Address: or, the Best Argument for Peace. Occasion’d by the British Fleet, and the Posture of Affairs when the Parliament Met, 1734. Musa Dedit Fidibus Divos, Puerosq; Deorum. Hor. By a Sailor. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer’s-Head, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-Street, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D., Formerly Rector of Welwyn, Hertfordshire, &c. Revised and Collated With the Earliest Editions. To Which Is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, by John Doran, LL.D. With Eight Illustrations on Steel, and a Portrait. 2 vols. (London: William Tegg and Co., 1854).
See The Foreign Address: or, the Best Argument for Peace. Occasion’d by the British Fleet, and the Posture of Affairs when the Parliament Met, 1734. Musa Dedit Fidibus Divos, Puerosq; Deorum. Hor. By a Sailor. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer’s-Head, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet-Street, 1735). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D., Formerly Rector of Welwyn, Hertfordshire, &c. Revised and Collated With the Earliest Editions. To Which Is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, by John Doran, LL.D. With Eight Illustrations on Steel, and a Portrait. 2 vols. (London: William Tegg and Co., 1854).
Theme
Horace, Book I, Ode iii
Date of Entry
05/27/2005
