"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, / They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, / Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."
— Dryden [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he, /
They own'd a lawless savage liberty, / Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd, /
Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd."
Metaphor in Context
Blind as the Cyclops, and blind as he,
They own'd a lawless savage liberty,
Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd,
Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd.
They own'd a lawless savage liberty,
Like that our painted ancestors so priz'd,
Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz'd.
Categories
Provenance
Consulted Johnson's Dictionary after searching "law" in HDIS.
Citation
Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. New York,: AMS Press, 1967.
Date of Entry
05/03/2005
Date of Review
12/30/2010
