Friendly powers create "These maladies in pity to mankind: / These abdicated Reason reinstate / When lawless Appetite usurps the mind"
— Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
1748, 1768
Metaphor
Friendly powers create "These maladies in pity to mankind: / These abdicated Reason reinstate / When lawless Appetite usurps the mind"
Metaphor in Context
Fool, not to know the friendly powers create
These maladies in pity to mankind:
These abdicated Reason reinstate
When lawless Appetite usurps the mind;
Heaven's faithful centries at the door of bliss
Plac'd to deter, or to chastise excess.
(cf. Vol. II, p. 294 in Dodsley's Miscellany)
These maladies in pity to mankind:
These abdicated Reason reinstate
When lawless Appetite usurps the mind;
Heaven's faithful centries at the door of bliss
Plac'd to deter, or to chastise excess.
(cf. Vol. II, p. 294 in Dodsley's Miscellany)
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 10 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1748, 1751, 1755, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1775, 1790).
Published in volume 2 of Robert Dodsley's miscellany. See A Collection of Poems in Three Volumes. By Several Hands. 3 vols. (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1748). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems Upon Various Subjects, Latin and English. by the Late Isaac Hawkins Browne (London: Printed for J. Nourse ... and C. Marsh, 1768).
Published in volume 2 of Robert Dodsley's miscellany. See A Collection of Poems in Three Volumes. By Several Hands. 3 vols. (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1748). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems Upon Various Subjects, Latin and English. by the Late Isaac Hawkins Browne (London: Printed for J. Nourse ... and C. Marsh, 1768).
Date of Entry
04/20/2005
