"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Date
1735, 1736
Metaphor
"In Men, we various Ruling Passions find, / In Women, two almost divide the kind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway."
Metaphor in Context
In Men, we various Ruling Passions find,
In Women, two almost divide the kind;
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey,
The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway.
(ll. 207-10, p. 567)
In Women, two almost divide the kind;
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey,
The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Sway.
(ll. 207-10, p. 567)
Provenance
Searching HDIS for "ruling passion"
Citation
At least 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1735, 1736, 1739, 1742, 1743, 1744, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1764, 1769, 1770, 1773, 1776, 1778, 1779, 1785, 1788, 1790).
See Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady. By Mr. Pope. (London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from The Works of Alexander Pope (London: Printed for B. Lintot, Lawton Gilliver, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). <Link to LION> [Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women.]
Reading The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).
See Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady. By Mr. Pope. (London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from The Works of Alexander Pope (London: Printed for B. Lintot, Lawton Gilliver, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). <Link to LION> [Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women.]
Reading The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).
Theme
Ruling Passion
Date of Entry
05/25/2004
