"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"
— Butler [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan [etc.]
Date
1755
Metaphor
"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"
Metaphor in Context
Both kinds of metal he prepar'd,
Either to give blows or to ward;
Courage and steel both of great force,
Prepar'd for better of for worse.
Either to give blows or to ward;
Courage and steel both of great force,
Prepar'd for better of for worse.
Categories
Provenance
Looking up "metal" in Johnson's dictionary
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
06/06/2005
