"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Johnson
Date
1789, 1791, 1799
Metaphor
"Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort, / Inexorable Conscience holds his court"
Metaphor in Context
E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Western shores
Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars:
E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell
Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell;
From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound,
And sable nations tremble at the sound!
--Ye bands of Senators! whose suffrage sways
Britannia's realms, whom either Ind obeys;
Who right the injured, and reward the brave,
Stretch your strong arm, for ye have power to save!
Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort,
Inexorable Conscience holds his court;
With still small voice the plots of Guilt alarms,
Bares his mask'd brow, his lifted hand disarms;
But, wrapp'd in night with terrors all his own,
He speaks in thunder, when the deed is done.
Hear him, ye Senates! hear this truth sublime,
"He, who allows oppression, shares the crime."
Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars:
E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell
Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell;
From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound,
And sable nations tremble at the sound!
--Ye bands of Senators! whose suffrage sways
Britannia's realms, whom either Ind obeys;
Who right the injured, and reward the brave,
Stretch your strong arm, for ye have power to save!
Throned in the vaulted heart, his dread resort,
Inexorable Conscience holds his court;
With still small voice the plots of Guilt alarms,
Bares his mask'd brow, his lifted hand disarms;
But, wrapp'd in night with terrors all his own,
He speaks in thunder, when the deed is done.
Hear him, ye Senates! hear this truth sublime,
"He, who allows oppression, shares the crime."
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Provenance
Searching "throne" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 13 entries in the ESTC (1789, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799).
Text from The Botanic Garden, a Poem. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation, Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes. 4th ed. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799).
See The Botanic Garden, Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants, a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Volume the Second. (Lichfield : printed by J. Jackson. Sold by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, London: M,DCC,LXXXIX. (entered at Stationers Hall.), [1789]). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Botanic Garden, a Poem. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation, Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes. 4th ed. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799).
See The Botanic Garden, Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants, a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Volume the Second. (Lichfield : printed by J. Jackson. Sold by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, London: M,DCC,LXXXIX. (entered at Stationers Hall.), [1789]). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/07/2004
