"Their dire Effects the Wretched feel: / Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel."

— Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Author

Barber, Mary (c.1685-1755)

Work Title

To the Reverend Dr. L---. Occasion'd by his Sermon for the Support of the Charity-Children at Tunbridge-Wells, Where the Collection was Small. [from Poems on Several Occasions]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Rivington
Date
1734, 1735
Metaphor
"Their dire Effects the Wretched feel: / Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel."
Metaphor in Context
'Tis said, Hibernia boasts a Flood,
Famous for petrefying Wood:
Tunbridge, thy Min'ral Streams, we know,
A stranger Transformation show:
Their dire Effects the Wretched feel:
Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel.
(cf. p. 141 in 1734 ed.)
Categories
Mineral::Steel
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1734, 1735, 1736, 1751).

See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed [by Samuel Richardson] for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). <Link to ESTC>

Text from Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1735). <Link to ESTC>

Found also in The Nut-Cracker. Containing an Agreeable Variety of Well-Season'd Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c. (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1751.), p. 34. <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/09/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.