"Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel, / Which never melted at Another's Woe."
— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed and sold by R. Dodsley
Date
1746, 1757
Metaphor
"Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel, / Which never melted at Another's Woe."
Metaphor in Context
Curs'd may He be (as if he were not so.)
Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel,
Which never melted at Another's Woe,
Nor Tenderness of Bowels knew to feel.
His Heart is black as Hell, in flowing Store
Who hears the Needy crying at his Door,
Who hears Them cry, ne recks; but suffers them be Poor.
(Cf. p. 18 in 1746 ed.)
Nay doubly curs'd be such a Breast of Steel,
Which never melted at Another's Woe,
Nor Tenderness of Bowels knew to feel.
His Heart is black as Hell, in flowing Store
Who hears the Needy crying at his Door,
Who hears Them cry, ne recks; but suffers them be Poor.
(Cf. p. 18 in 1746 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1746, 1757, 1763, 1790, 1796).
See An Hymn to May. By William Thompson, M. A. of Queen's College Oxon. (London: Printed and sold by R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; T. Waller in Fleetstreet; and M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1746). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions, To Which is Added Gondibert and Birtha, A Tragedy. By William Thompson (Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1757). <Link to ESTC>
Collected in The Poetical Calendar (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, 1763), v, p. 1. <Link to ECCO>
Collected in Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry (London: 1790), xi, p. 89. <Link to ECCO>
Collected in The Temple of Apollo Being a Selection of the Best Poems, from the Most Esteem'd Authors (London: 1796), p. 7. <Link to ECCO>
See An Hymn to May. By William Thompson, M. A. of Queen's College Oxon. (London: Printed and sold by R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; T. Waller in Fleetstreet; and M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1746). <Link to ESTC>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions, To Which is Added Gondibert and Birtha, A Tragedy. By William Thompson (Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1757). <Link to ESTC>
Collected in The Poetical Calendar (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, 1763), v, p. 1. <Link to ECCO>
Collected in Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry (London: 1790), xi, p. 89. <Link to ECCO>
Collected in The Temple of Apollo Being a Selection of the Best Poems, from the Most Esteem'd Authors (London: 1796), p. 7. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/13/2005
