"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan
Date
1796
Metaphor
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
Metaphor in Context
Thus Books are intellectual Aliment; drest
For every appetite of every guest:--
Or, if a various reading you can swallow,
"Scripta Palati nunc, quæcunque recepit Apollo."
For every appetite of every guest:--
Or, if a various reading you can swallow,
"Scripta Palati nunc, quæcunque recepit Apollo."
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Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 hits in ECCO and ESTC (1796, 1800).
Text from The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A. M. Late Head-Master of Merchant-Taylors' School, Rector of St. Martin Outwich, London, and of Ditton in the County of Kent, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Clare, A. M. (London: Printed by A. Strahan; and sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies, in the Strand; Mr. Robson, New Bond Street; Mr. Walter, Charing Cross; Mr. Dilly, Poultry; Messrs. White, Fleet Street; Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church Yard; Mr. Payne, Mews Gate; Messrs. Fletcher and Hanwell, and Mr. Cooke, at Oxford; Mr. Deighton, and Mr. Lunn, at Cambridge; and Mr. Bulgin, at Bristol, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A. M. Late Head-Master of Merchant-Taylors' School, Rector of St. Martin Outwich, London, and of Ditton in the County of Kent, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Clare, A. M. (London: Printed by A. Strahan; and sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies, in the Strand; Mr. Robson, New Bond Street; Mr. Walter, Charing Cross; Mr. Dilly, Poultry; Messrs. White, Fleet Street; Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church Yard; Mr. Payne, Mews Gate; Messrs. Fletcher and Hanwell, and Mr. Cooke, at Oxford; Mr. Deighton, and Mr. Lunn, at Cambridge; and Mr. Bulgin, at Bristol, 1796). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
05/16/2005
