When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"

— Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Author

Brooke, Henry (c. 1703-1783)

Work Title

Another Prologue to the Earl of Westmorland

Date
1792
Metaphor
When human feelings may inspire the breast so that the "Mint of Nature" glows, "Virtue strikes her image on the mind"
Metaphor in Context
When human feelings the warm breast inspire,
When pity softens, and when passions fire;
Then glows the Mint of Nature, apt, refined,
And Virtue strikes her image on the mind.
Categories
Architecture::Mint
Provenance
Searching "passion" and "mint" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
04/11/2005

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