"Tho' Prejudice in narrow minds, / The mental eye of reason blinds."
— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)
Work Title
Date
December, 1763; 1774
Metaphor
"Tho' Prejudice in narrow minds, / The mental eye of reason blinds."
Metaphor in Context
Tho' Prejudice in narrow minds,
The mental eye of reason blinds;
Tho' Wit, which not e'en friends will spare,
Affect the sneering, laughing air,
Tho' Dullness, in her monkish gown,
Display the Wisdom of a frown,
Yet Truth will force herself, in spite
Of all their efforts, into light.
The mental eye of reason blinds;
Tho' Wit, which not e'en friends will spare,
Affect the sneering, laughing air,
Tho' Dullness, in her monkish gown,
Display the Wisdom of a frown,
Yet Truth will force herself, in spite
Of all their efforts, into light.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 7 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1764, 1774, 1790). Appears in volume 3 of The Beauties of All the Magazines and in The Works of the English Poets.
See "Charity. A Satyre. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Hanbury, by Robert Lloyd" in The St. James's Magazine. By Robert Lloyd, A.M. (London [England]: Printed for W[illiam]. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; T[homas]. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J[ohn]. Coote, in Pater-noster-Row, 1764). -- from vol. III. pp. 235-242. "Volumes 1-3 were edited, by Robert Lloyd, who was also a contributor. After Feb. 1764, the editorship was taken over by the playwright William Kenrick" <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd, A.M. to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. by W. Kenrick, LL.D. in Two Volumes. (London: printed for T. Evans in the Strand, 1774). <Link to ESTC> -- Titled "Charity. A Fragment."
See "Charity. A Satyre. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Hanbury, by Robert Lloyd" in The St. James's Magazine. By Robert Lloyd, A.M. (London [England]: Printed for W[illiam]. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; T[homas]. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J[ohn]. Coote, in Pater-noster-Row, 1764). -- from vol. III. pp. 235-242. "Volumes 1-3 were edited, by Robert Lloyd, who was also a contributor. After Feb. 1764, the editorship was taken over by the playwright William Kenrick" <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd, A.M. to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. by W. Kenrick, LL.D. in Two Volumes. (London: printed for T. Evans in the Strand, 1774). <Link to ESTC> -- Titled "Charity. A Fragment."
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/17/2006
