"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."
— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Author
Work Title
Date
1741
Metaphor
"But self-conceitedness does reign / In every mortal mind."
Metaphor in Context
Well! I will never more complain,
Or call the Fates unkind;
Alas! how fond it is, how vain!
But self-conceitedness does reign
In every mortal mind.
(ll. 1-5, p. 714)
Or call the Fates unkind;
Alas! how fond it is, how vain!
But self-conceitedness does reign
In every mortal mind.
(ll. 1-5, p. 714)
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
At least 7 entries in ECCO an ESTC (1741, 1742, 1754, 1767, 1779, 1784, 1790). [Collected in The Works on the English Poets.]
Text from Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse. ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1907). <Link to LION>
Reading The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Text from Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse. ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1907). <Link to LION>
Reading The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, eds. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Date of Entry
01/05/2004
