"His vital spark her earthly cell forsook, / And into air her fleeting progress took."
— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date
1772, 1810
Metaphor
"His vital spark her earthly cell forsook, / And into air her fleeting progress took."
Metaphor in Context
He spoke: a sudden cloud his senses stole,
And thickening darkness swam o'er all his soul;
His vital spark her earthly cell forsook,
And into air her fleeting progress took.
(II, p. 160, ll. 357-360)
And thickening darkness swam o'er all his soul;
His vital spark her earthly cell forsook,
And into air her fleeting progress took.
(II, p. 160, ll. 357-360)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "cell" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Written in 1769. 3 entries for Poems in ESTC (1772, 1774, 1777).
Text from The Poetical Works of William Jones. With the Life of the author, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Nichols and Son; R. Baldwin, 1810).
See also Poems: Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (Altenbrugh: Gottlob Emanuel Richter, 1774).<Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poetical Works of William Jones. With the Life of the author, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Nichols and Son; R. Baldwin, 1810).
See also Poems: Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (Altenbrugh: Gottlob Emanuel Richter, 1774).<Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/17/2005
