"For hell is center'd in my breast, / There still its hottest fervours burn"
— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies
Date
1774
Metaphor
"For hell is center'd in my breast, / There still its hottest fervours burn"
Metaphor in Context
Sweet peace of mind! seraphic guest!
How long thy absence shall I mourn?
From yon bright mansions of the blest
With all thy placid train return:
For hell is center'd in my breast,
There still its hottest fervours burn.
No more, ye tortur'd ghosts, repine,
Since less acute your pains than mine.
How long thy absence shall I mourn?
From yon bright mansions of the blest
With all thy placid train return:
For hell is center'd in my breast,
There still its hottest fervours burn.
No more, ye tortur'd ghosts, repine,
Since less acute your pains than mine.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in 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>
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
03/13/2006
