"Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng, / Their syllogistic war prolong, / And reason's empire boast."
— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Date
1754, 1793
Metaphor
"Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng, / Their syllogistic war prolong, / And reason's empire boast."
Metaphor in Context
Let Logic's sons, mechanic throng,
Their syllogistic war prolong,
And reason's empire boast:
Inshrin'd in deep congenial gloom,
Eternal wrangling be their doom,
To truth and nature lost!
(Cf. p. 62 in 1754 ed.)
Their syllogistic war prolong,
And reason's empire boast:
Inshrin'd in deep congenial gloom,
Eternal wrangling be their doom,
To truth and nature lost!
(Cf. p. 62 in 1754 ed.)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "reason" and "empire in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 7 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1754, 1756, 1759, 1763, 1793).
See Poems on Several Occasions. By Thomas Blacklock, Student of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. (Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1754). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems by the Late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock; Together With an Essay on the Education of the Blind. To Which Is Prefixed a New Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. (Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Chapman and Company; sold by W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London, 1793). <Link to ESTC>
See Poems on Several Occasions. By Thomas Blacklock, Student of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. (Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1754). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems by the Late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock; Together With an Essay on the Education of the Blind. To Which Is Prefixed a New Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. (Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Chapman and Company; sold by W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London, 1793). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/16/2004
