"Such were the high Endowments of her Mind, / (To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd)."
— Hughes, Jabez (1685-1731)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by John Watts
Date
1737
Metaphor
"Such were the high Endowments of her Mind, / (To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd)."
Metaphor in Context
When first we saw her tender Life display
Its op'ning Beams, and signify the Day,
So bright she shone with ev'ry pleasing Grace,
Exact in Form and Symmetry of Face;
Such were the high Endowments of her Mind,
(To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd,)
Heav'n, we believ'd, with merciful Intent,
This finish'd Pattern to the World had sent,
By mild Example sweetly to prevail,
While rigid Lessons of dry Morals fail.
Its op'ning Beams, and signify the Day,
So bright she shone with ev'ry pleasing Grace,
Exact in Form and Symmetry of Face;
Such were the high Endowments of her Mind,
(To Reason's Rule, her Passions still resign'd,)
Heav'n, we believ'd, with merciful Intent,
This finish'd Pattern to the World had sent,
By mild Example sweetly to prevail,
While rigid Lessons of dry Morals fail.
Provenance
Searching "rule" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1737, 1741).
Text from Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Jabez Hughes (London: Printed by John Watts, 1737). <Link to ECCO>
Found also in ECCO in Claudian the Poet His Elegant History of Rufinus (1741), p. 146ff. <Link to ECCO>
Text from Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Jabez Hughes (London: Printed by John Watts, 1737). <Link to ECCO>
Found also in ECCO in Claudian the Poet His Elegant History of Rufinus (1741), p. 146ff. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/17/2004
