"Yet shall we, Colman, at these gifts repine? / Implore cold apathy to steel the heart?"

— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

Author

Langhorne, John (1735-1779)

Work Title

To George Colman Esq. Prefixed to the Correspondence of Theodosius and Constantia. [from The Poetical Works of John Langhorne ... To which are prefixed, Memoirs of the Author by his Son the Rev. J. T. Langhorne ... In Two Volumes]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Mawman [by] T. Gillet
Date
1804
Metaphor
"Yet shall we, Colman, at these gifts repine? / Implore cold apathy to steel the heart?"
Metaphor in Context
Yet shall we, Colman, at these gifts repine?
Implore cold apathy to steel the heart?
Would you that sensibility resign,
And with those powers of genius would you part?
Categories
Mineral::Steel
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry);
Date of Entry
06/10/2005

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