"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [pseud.]
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1752
Metaphor
"Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free, / You are by much a greater Slave, than me; / A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind, / Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind."
Metaphor in Context
VALET
Have Patience Sir--You warmly praise
The sober Manners of Eliza's Days;
Yet if some God would bring those Days again,
You'd sigh for these, nor could yourself contain:
"What you commend, you either think not right,
"Or have not Virtue to maintain the Fight."
Stuck in the Mire, which first your Feet betray'd,
All your vain Struggles are untimely made;
Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free,
You are by much a greater Slave, than me;
A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind,
Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind.
Have Patience Sir--You warmly praise
The sober Manners of Eliza's Days;
Yet if some God would bring those Days again,
You'd sigh for these, nor could yourself contain:
"What you commend, you either think not right,
"Or have not Virtue to maintain the Fight."
Stuck in the Mire, which first your Feet betray'd,
All your vain Struggles are untimely made;
Weak, impotent, yet wishing to be free,
You are by much a greater Slave, than me;
A Slave, to ev'ry Gust that shakes your Mind,
Your Eyes broad open, and your Senses blind.
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS for "master passion"
Citation
See Horace, Book II. Satire vii. Imitated: or, a Dialogue Between a Man of Fashion and His Valet. Inscribed to Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq; by Sir Nicholas Nemo, Knt. (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1752). <Link to ESTC> <Link to LION> [No attribution in ESTC].
Date of Entry
06/01/2004
Date of Review
08/31/2011
