"This brood of hell man's ev'ry part, / My soul keeps as her own, / 'Gainst God that made me; in my heart / They [sins] do erect their throne."
— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Author
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1739, 1766
Metaphor
"This brood of hell man's ev'ry part, / My soul keeps as her own, / 'Gainst God that made me; in my heart / They [sins] do erect their throne."
Metaphor in Context
They swarm within me, and without
They all my pow'rs possess;
My soul they have inclos'd about,
And down to hell me press.
This brood of hell man's ev'ry part,
My soul keeps as her own,
'Gainst God that made me; in my heart
They do erect their throne.
They all my pow'rs possess;
My soul they have inclos'd about,
And down to hell me press.
This brood of hell man's ev'ry part,
My soul keeps as her own,
'Gainst God that made me; in my heart
They do erect their throne.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1739, 1766).
Text from Poems on Several Subjects, Both Comical and Serious. In Two Parts. By Alexander Nicol, Schoolmaster. To Which Are Added, the Experienced Gentleman, and the She Anchoret; Written in Cromwell's Time, by the then Duchess of Newcastle. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and James Stark Bookseller in Dundee; and sold by him and the other Booksellers in town and country, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Found also in Nature's Progress in Poetry, Being a Collection of Serious Poems. By Alexander Nicol, Teacher of English at Abernyte. (Edinburgh, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Subjects, Both Comical and Serious. In Two Parts. By Alexander Nicol, Schoolmaster. To Which Are Added, the Experienced Gentleman, and the She Anchoret; Written in Cromwell's Time, by the then Duchess of Newcastle. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and James Stark Bookseller in Dundee; and sold by him and the other Booksellers in town and country, 1766). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Found also in Nature's Progress in Poetry, Being a Collection of Serious Poems. By Alexander Nicol, Teacher of English at Abernyte. (Edinburgh, 1739). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/07/2004
