"Where is the heart, to grateful feelings sear'd, / The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd, / Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd"
— Stevenson, William (1730-1783)
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid
Date
1765
Metaphor
"Where is the heart, to grateful feelings sear'd, / The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd, / Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd"
Metaphor in Context
Where is the heart, to grateful feelings sear'd,
The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd,
Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd,
Whom hunger prompts to range the sanguin'd field;
The breast, against each soft sensation steel'd,
Hard as the tyger's, in wild deserts rear'd,
Whom hunger prompts to range the sanguin'd field;
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" 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
06/13/2005
