"Yet, though the hardy, unreflecting heart / Glows in the chace, as flints are fir'd by steel ... That breast's not human which can never feel."
— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid
Date
1765
Metaphor
"Yet, though the hardy, unreflecting heart / Glows in the chace, as flints are fir'd by steel ... That breast's not human which can never feel."
Metaphor in Context
Yet, though the hardy, unreflecting heart
Glows in the chace, as flints are fir'd by steel;
Well may the Muse with confidence assert,
That breast's not human which can never feel.
Glows in the chace, as flints are fir'd by steel;
Well may the Muse with confidence assert,
That breast's not human which can never feel.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1765).
Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Original Poems on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By William Stevenson (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid. Sold by Alexander Donaldson, in London and Edinburgh, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Materialism
Date of Entry
06/11/2005
