Thought may be breathed "in numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong"
— Collins, William (1721-1759)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
A. Millar, in the Strand
Date
1746
Metaphor
Thought may be breathed "in numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong"
Metaphor in Context
O thou by Nature taught
To breathe her genuine thought,
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong:
Who first on mountains wild
In Fancy, loveliest child,
Thy babe or Pleasure's, nursed the powers of song!
(ll. 1-6, pp. 423-4)
To breathe her genuine thought,
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong:
Who first on mountains wild
In Fancy, loveliest child,
Thy babe or Pleasure's, nursed the powers of song!
(ll. 1-6, pp. 423-4)
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Provenance
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Citation
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972
Date of Entry
11/22/2003
Date of Review
04/26/2007
