There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson
Date
1712
Metaphor
There are sovereign Lords "Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct; / The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace, / Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race."
Metaphor in Context
Ye sovereign Lords, who sit like Gods in State,
Awing the World, and bustling to be great;
Lords but in Title, Vassals in Effect,
Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct;
The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace,
Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race.
Awing the World, and bustling to be great;
Lords but in Title, Vassals in Effect,
Whom Lust controuls, and wild Desires direct;
The Reigns of Empire but such Hands disgrace,
Where Passion, a blind Driver, guides the Race.
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, L. Gilliver, J. Clarke, 1736).
See also Poems Upon Several Occasions (London: printed for J. Tonson, 1712), 103-4. <Link to ECCO> and Poems Upon Several Occasions, 3rd edition (London: J. Tonson, 1721), 72. <Link to Google Books>
See also Poems Upon Several Occasions (London: printed for J. Tonson, 1712), 103-4. <Link to ECCO> and Poems Upon Several Occasions, 3rd edition (London: J. Tonson, 1721), 72. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/23/2004
