A disembodied mind may "In Fleury's brainy Cells, [its] Entrance hide: / Heedful attend, where Thought's dim Embryos lie: / Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame awry.
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Osborn
Date
1743
Metaphor
A disembodied mind may "In Fleury's brainy Cells, [its] Entrance hide: / Heedful attend, where Thought's dim Embryos lie: / Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame awry.
Metaphor in Context
In Heav'n's kind Ear, I lodg'd th'accepted Pray'r:
(Still reigns my Marlbro's living Influence there!)
Walking, with Seraph Pow'rs, th'eternal Round,
Th'immortal Captain caught th'imploring Sound:
Where, on War's Theme, with Michael, he conferr'd,
And Cæsar's silent Soul, attentive, heard.
Strait, from unbounded Voids of azure Light,
Where Spirits, freed from Flesh, and bleach'd from Night,
Gliding, from Sun to Sun, new Worlds survey,
That roll, by Millions, and adorn their Way:
Th'all-rev'renc'd Leader call'd a wily Mind,
That left all Tinge of bodied Flegm behind;
One, that had Popes and Jesuits Ardour fir'd;
And slow-soul'd Mufties solemn Spleens inspir'd:
Now, stript and naked, skimm'd th'eternal Space,
Anxious for Office, and in Wait, for Place.
Go, cry'd the Voice Seraphic, faithful! try'd!--
In Fleury's brainy Cells, thy Entrance hide:
Heedful attend, where Thought's dim Embryos lie:
Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame awry.
Lure him th'Effects of pow'rful Wealth to dread:
And to try'd Traffick turn the Frenchman's Head.
(Still reigns my Marlbro's living Influence there!)
Walking, with Seraph Pow'rs, th'eternal Round,
Th'immortal Captain caught th'imploring Sound:
Where, on War's Theme, with Michael, he conferr'd,
And Cæsar's silent Soul, attentive, heard.
Strait, from unbounded Voids of azure Light,
Where Spirits, freed from Flesh, and bleach'd from Night,
Gliding, from Sun to Sun, new Worlds survey,
That roll, by Millions, and adorn their Way:
Th'all-rev'renc'd Leader call'd a wily Mind,
That left all Tinge of bodied Flegm behind;
One, that had Popes and Jesuits Ardour fir'd;
And slow-soul'd Mufties solemn Spleens inspir'd:
Now, stript and naked, skimm'd th'eternal Space,
Anxious for Office, and in Wait, for Place.
Go, cry'd the Voice Seraphic, faithful! try'd!--
In Fleury's brainy Cells, thy Entrance hide:
Heedful attend, where Thought's dim Embryos lie:
Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame awry.
Lure him th'Effects of pow'rful Wealth to dread:
And to try'd Traffick turn the Frenchman's Head.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "cell" and "brain" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 3 entires in ECCO and ESTC (1743, 1753, 1754).
See The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Cantos. To His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, on the turn of His Genius to Arms. (London: Printed for J. Osborn, at the [Golden-Ball] in Pater-Noster Row, 1743). <Link to ESTC>
See The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem. In Six Cantos. To His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, on the turn of His Genius to Arms. (London: Printed for J. Osborn, at the [Golden-Ball] in Pater-Noster Row, 1743). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/29/2005
