"With darts and flames some arm his [Love's] feeble hands, / His infant brow with regal honours crown; / Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands, / Meanly submissive, falls below his throne."
— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Place of Publication
London
Date
w. c. 1751, 1775
Metaphor
"With darts and flames some arm his [Love's] feeble hands, / His infant brow with regal honours crown; / Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands, / Meanly submissive, falls below his throne."
Metaphor in Context
Love wildly rages like the foaming main.
With darts and flames some arm his feeble hands,
His infant brow with regal honours crown;
Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands,
Meanly submissive, falls below his throne.
Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes
The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts!
(pp. 147-8, ll. 31-38, p. 239 in Lonsdale)
With darts and flames some arm his feeble hands,
His infant brow with regal honours crown;
Whilst vanquished Reason, bound with silken bands,
Meanly submissive, falls below his throne.
Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes
The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts!
(pp. 147-8, ll. 31-38, p. 239 in Lonsdale)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1775, 1777, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1789)
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: E. and C. Dilly, 1775). <Link to ECCO>
Also The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Containing Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady: and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. In Two Volumes. (Dublin: Printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775) [not consulted]. <Link to ESTC>
See also Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Collected in Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: E. and C. Dilly, 1775). <Link to ECCO>
Also The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Containing Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady: and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. In Two Volumes. (Dublin: Printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775) [not consulted]. <Link to ESTC>
See also Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Collected in Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Theme
Ruling Passion
Date of Entry
07/23/2003
Date of Review
06/16/2011
