"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1783, 1838
Metaphor
"[N]aked vices, rude and unrefined" may "Exert their open empire o'er the mind"
Metaphor in Context
See the stout churl, in drunken fury great,
Strike the bare bosom of his teeming mate!
His naked vices, rude and unrefined,
Exert their open empire o'er the mind;
But can we less the senseless rage despise,
Because the savage acts without disguise?
Strike the bare bosom of his teeming mate!
His naked vices, rude and unrefined,
Exert their open empire o'er the mind;
But can we less the senseless rage despise,
Because the savage acts without disguise?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "empire" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783, 1791).
See The Village: a Poem. In Two Books. By the Revd. George Crabbe, Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Rutland, &c. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1783). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by His Son. In Eight Volumes. (London: John Murray, 1838). <Link to LION>
See The Village: a Poem. In Two Books. By the Revd. George Crabbe, Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Rutland, &c. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1783). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by His Son. In Eight Volumes. (London: John Murray, 1838). <Link to LION>
Date of Entry
08/11/2004
