" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1764
Metaphor
" Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring / In souls of vulgar stamp"
Metaphor in Context
The first, who, from his native soil removed,
Held England's sceptre, a tame tyrant proved:
Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring
In souls of vulgar stamp, to be a king:
Spirit he had not, though he laugh'd at laws,
To play the bold-faced tyrant with applause;
On practices most mean he raised his pride,
And Craft oft gave what Wisdom oft denied.
Held England's sceptre, a tame tyrant proved:
Virtue he lack'd, cursed with those thoughts which spring
In souls of vulgar stamp, to be a king:
Spirit he had not, though he laugh'd at laws,
To play the bold-faced tyrant with applause;
On practices most mean he raised his pride,
And Craft oft gave what Wisdom oft denied.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "stamp" and "thought" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
8 entries in ESTC (1764, 1765).
Issued in 3 "Books" in 1764, each with a separate half-title; collected in Churchill's Poems (1765).
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver. 2 vols. (London: The King's Printers, 1933).
Issued in 3 "Books" in 1764, each with a separate half-title; collected in Churchill's Poems (1765).
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver. 2 vols. (London: The King's Printers, 1933).
Date of Entry
04/09/2005
