"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Newport Pagnell
Publisher
Bull
Date
1801
Metaphor
"Pursue the theme, and you shall find ... after summing all the rest, / Religion ruling in the breast / A principal ingredient."
Metaphor in Context
Pursue the theme, and you shall find
A disciplined and furnish'd mind
To be at least expedient,
And, after summing all the rest,
Religion ruling in the breast
A principal ingredient.
(ll. 175-80, pp. 452-3)
A disciplined and furnish'd mind
To be at least expedient,
And, after summing all the rest,
Religion ruling in the breast
A principal ingredient.
(ll. 175-80, pp. 452-3)
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Poem first published in Bull's Poems, Translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion, by the late William Cowper, Esq. To which are added some original poems of Mr. Cowper, not inserted in his works, Newport Pagnell, 1801. Reprinted in The Poems of William Cowper. 3 vols. Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp. Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980. Vol I.
Date of Entry
12/30/2003
