"Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams [of scribbling] invade, / And win to verse the talents due to trade."
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley
Date
1785, 1838
Metaphor
"Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams [of scribbling] invade, / And win to verse the talents due to trade."
Metaphor in Context
Last in these ranks, and least, their art's disgrace,
Neglected stand the Muses' meanest race;
Scribblers who court contempt, whose verse the eye
Disdainful views, and glances swiftly by:
This Poet's Corner is the place they choose,
A fatal nursery for an infant Muse;
Unlike that Corner where true Poets lie,
These cannot live, and they shall never die;
Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams invade,
And win to verse the talents due to trade.
Neglected stand the Muses' meanest race;
Scribblers who court contempt, whose verse the eye
Disdainful views, and glances swiftly by:
This Poet's Corner is the place they choose,
A fatal nursery for an infant Muse;
Unlike that Corner where true Poets lie,
These cannot live, and they shall never die;
Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams invade,
And win to verse the talents due to trade.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "invad" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1785).
See The News-Paper: a Poem. By The Reverend George Crabbe, Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Rutland. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1785). <Link to ESTC>
Text from 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 News-Paper: a Poem. By The Reverend George Crabbe, Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Rutland. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1785). <Link to ESTC>
Text from 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
05/04/2005
