"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Author

Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Work Title

XVIII. Who, Elevated by the Sacred Flame [from Poems to Thespia]

Place of Publication
Exeter
Publisher
Printed by W. Grigg
Date
1781, 1791
Metaphor
"How vainly the tumultuous passions strive / To shake his breast! they claim no empire there"
Metaphor in Context
How true to fame! How tenderly alive
To pity's soft emotions! How sincere!
How vainly the tumultuous passions strive
To shake his breast! they claim no empire there.
Categories
Government::Empire
Provenance
Searching "empire" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1781, 1791, 1792).

Text from Poems to Thespia. To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. (Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and Son, 1791). <Link to ECCO>

See also Hugh Downman, Poems to Thespia (Exeter: Printed by W. Grigg, 1781). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/23/2004

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.