"When Siddons, honour'd, lov'd, rever'd, departs, / Ah! who may claim her empire in your hearts?"
— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Becket
Date
1785
Metaphor
"When Siddons, honour'd, lov'd, rever'd, departs, / Ah! who may claim her empire in your hearts?"
Metaphor in Context
When Nature's favourite from the scene withdraws,
Hard is the task to plead a stranger's cause;
When Siddons, honour'd, lov'd, rever'd, departs,
Ah! who may claim her empire in your hearts?
Where still enthron'd, her worth, her talents shine,
The fairest image of the richest shrine;
Where fondly cherish'd all her powers we trace,
The truth of action and the charm of face,
Transcendant manners, conduct void of blame,
And Cibber's genius join'd to Pritchard's fame.
(I, pp. 274-5)
Hard is the task to plead a stranger's cause;
When Siddons, honour'd, lov'd, rever'd, departs,
Ah! who may claim her empire in your hearts?
Where still enthron'd, her worth, her talents shine,
The fairest image of the richest shrine;
Where fondly cherish'd all her powers we trace,
The truth of action and the charm of face,
Transcendant manners, conduct void of blame,
And Cibber's genius join'd to Pritchard's fame.
(I, pp. 274-5)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "empire" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
1 entry in ESTC (1785).
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Miscellanies, By Mr. Pratt, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Miscellanies, By Mr. Pratt, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/22/2004
Date of Review
03/28/2012
