"How Custom steels the human breast / To deeds that Nature's thoughts detest!"
— Scott, John, of Amwell (1730-1783)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Buckland
Date
1782
Metaphor
"How Custom steels the human breast / To deeds that Nature's thoughts detest!"
Metaphor in Context
How Custom steels the human breast
To deeds that Nature's thoughts detest!
How Custom consecrates to fame
What Reason else would give to shame!
Fair Spring supplies the favouring gale,
The Naval Plunderer spreads his sail,
And ploughing wide the watry way,
Explores with anxious eyes his prey.
To deeds that Nature's thoughts detest!
How Custom consecrates to fame
What Reason else would give to shame!
Fair Spring supplies the favouring gale,
The Naval Plunderer spreads his sail,
And ploughing wide the watry way,
Explores with anxious eyes his prey.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "breast" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/13/2005
