"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols
Date
1772
Metaphor
"With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?"
Metaphor in Context
But now with all these proud desires
For dauntless truth and and honest fame;
With that strong master of our frame,
The inexorable judge within,
What can be done? Alas, ye fires
Of love; alas, ye rosy smiles,
Ye nectar'd cups from happier soils,
--Ye have no bribe his grace to win.
(p. 312 in 1772 ed.)
For dauntless truth and and honest fame;
With that strong master of our frame,
The inexorable judge within,
What can be done? Alas, ye fires
Of love; alas, ye rosy smiles,
Ye nectar'd cups from happier soils,
--Ye have no bribe his grace to win.
(p. 312 in 1772 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "judge within" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
11 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1772, 1773, 1779, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1795, 1800).
Text from The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poems Of Mark Akenside (London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/26/2004
Date of Review
06/13/2011
