"Their hearts of comfort felt no ray."

— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1774
Metaphor
"Their hearts of comfort felt no ray."
Metaphor in Context
Not so the hosts on yonder plain:
Their hearts of comfort felt no ray;
For conquest each had toil'd in vain,
Nor hop'd the dear decisive day:
Sadden'd with labour, want, and pain,
Th'interminable prospect lay;
But chief in ev'ry English soul
Sedition rag'd without controul.
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1774, 1784).

See The Graham; an Heroic Ballad: in Four Cantos. By Thomas Blacklock, D.D. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1774). <Link to ESTC>

See also Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and Mss. With Notes. By Thomas Evans. ([London]: Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1784), vol. 3 of 4. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
02/09/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.