"Roast Beef quantum suff. and take tantum Red Port, / They steel the main-spring of the Heart."
— Stevens, George Alexander (1710?-1784)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Kearsley
Date
1772, 1788
Metaphor
"Roast Beef quantum suff. and take tantum Red Port, / They steel the main-spring of the Heart."
Metaphor in Context
If Bacchus and Ceres were drove from Love's court,
Desire must frozen depart!
Roast Beef quantum suff. and take tantum Red Port,
They steel the main-spring of the Heart.
Cou'd we Venus consult, why indeed so we may,
Since each circle a Venus supplies,
I'll back my opinion, those beauties will say
A Milksop's the thing we despise.
(p. 7 in 1772 edition)
Desire must frozen depart!
Roast Beef quantum suff. and take tantum Red Port,
They steel the main-spring of the Heart.
Cou'd we Venus consult, why indeed so we may,
Since each circle a Venus supplies,
I'll back my opinion, those beauties will say
A Milksop's the thing we despise.
(p. 7 in 1772 edition)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
6 entries in ESTC (1772, 1778, 1782, 1788, 1796).
Text from Songs, comic and satyrical. By George Alexander Stevens, new ed., corrected (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788)
Text from Songs, comic and satyrical. By George Alexander Stevens, new ed., corrected (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788)
Date of Entry
06/10/2005
