"In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he, / Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be."
— Pennecuik, Alexander (d. 1730)
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Date
1715, 1762
Metaphor
"In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he, / Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be."
Metaphor in Context
God hath no Shape; no Art nor Instrument,
GOD's Image can in Mettle Represent,
In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he,
Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be.
GOD's Image can in Mettle Represent,
In Good Mens Minds and Hearts alone doth he,
Delight to Dwell, and there Engraven be.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1715, 1762).
Text from A Collection Of Curious Scots Poems ... To which is added the Marriage of Belphegor, a Translation out of Matchiavel. By Alexander Pennycuik (Edinburgh: [s.n.] 1762).
A Geographical, Historical Description of the Shire of Tweeddale. With a Miscelany [Sic] and Curious Collection of Select Scotish Poems. By A. P. M.D. (Edinburgh : printed by John Moncur, 1715). -- ESTC notes, "The poems have separate pagination and register, and were re-issued in 1762 without the prose description as ’A collection of curious Scots poems’."
See also The Works of Alexander Pennecuik, of New-Hall, M.D.; Containing the Description of Tweeddale, and Miscellaneous Poems, new ed. (Leith: Printed by and for A. Allardice, 1815). <Link to Google Books>
Text from A Collection Of Curious Scots Poems ... To which is added the Marriage of Belphegor, a Translation out of Matchiavel. By Alexander Pennycuik (Edinburgh: [s.n.] 1762).
A Geographical, Historical Description of the Shire of Tweeddale. With a Miscelany [Sic] and Curious Collection of Select Scotish Poems. By A. P. M.D. (Edinburgh : printed by John Moncur, 1715). -- ESTC notes, "The poems have separate pagination and register, and were re-issued in 1762 without the prose description as ’A collection of curious Scots poems’."
See also The Works of Alexander Pennecuik, of New-Hall, M.D.; Containing the Description of Tweeddale, and Miscellaneous Poems, new ed. (Leith: Printed by and for A. Allardice, 1815). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
