"Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught / Each varied feeling, and each tender thought; / While moral virtue sanctified thy art, / And passion gave it empire o'er the heart."

— Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Author

Hayley, William (1745-1820)

Work Title

An Essay on Painting; In Two Epistles.

Date
1778, 1788
Metaphor
"Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught / Each varied feeling, and each tender thought; / While moral virtue sanctified thy art, / And passion gave it empire o'er the heart."
Metaphor in Context
Thy tragic pencil, Aristides, caught
Each varied feeling, and each tender thought;
While moral virtue sanctified thy art,
And passion gave it empire o'er the heart.
Categories
Government::Empire
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1778, 1779, 1781, 1785, 1788).

First published in 1778 as A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter (London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, at the Mews Gate; J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and Robson and Co. in New Bond Street, 1778). <Link to ESTC>

Text from new edition of Hayley's Poems and Plays (1788): poem retitled, "An Essay on Painting: In Two Epistles. To Mr. Romney." <Link to Google Books> <Link to LION> See also William Hayley, Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq., vol. 1 of 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). <Link to ECCO>

Found also in The Poetical Library; Being a Collection of the Best Modern English Poems (Leipzig: Printed for A.F. Boehme, 1787). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/22/2004

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