"Come then dear and decent favour, / Learn what thou wilt ne'er impart;/ Fix thy throne, and fix it ever, / In the regions of my heart."
— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Work Title
Date
1780, 1785
Metaphor
"Come then dear and decent favour, / Learn what thou wilt ne'er impart;/ Fix thy throne, and fix it ever, / In the regions of my heart."
Metaphor in Context
Come then dear and decent favour,
Learn what thou wilt ne'er impart;
Fix thy throne, and fix it ever,
In the regions of my heart.
Learn what thou wilt ne'er impart;
Fix thy throne, and fix it ever,
In the regions of my heart.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
8 entries in ECCO (1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1789).
Appears in Emma Corbett: Or, The Miseries of the Civil War (Dublin, 1780). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Samuel Jackson Pratt, Miscellanies, By Mr. Pratt, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Found in A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, by Several Hands (Dublin, 1789) <Link to ECCO>. See also publication as a single-sheet song: Address to a Locket. The Words from Emma Corbet ([Salisbury]: Fowler, printer, [1783?]). <Link to ECCO>
Appears in Emma Corbett: Or, The Miseries of the Civil War (Dublin, 1780). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Samuel Jackson Pratt, Miscellanies, By Mr. Pratt, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Found in A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, by Several Hands (Dublin, 1789) <Link to ECCO>. See also publication as a single-sheet song: Address to a Locket. The Words from Emma Corbet ([Salisbury]: Fowler, printer, [1783?]). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/07/2004
Date of Review
06/15/2009
