"Triumphant love, with still superior art, / Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart."
— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)
Author
Work Title
Date
1781, 1810
Metaphor
"Triumphant love, with still superior art, / Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart."
Metaphor in Context
'Twas thus Apelles bask'd in beauty's rays,
And felt the mischief of the stedfast gaze;
Trac'd with disorder'd hand Campaspe's charms,
And as their beam the kindling canvas warms,
Triumphant love, with still superior art,
Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart.
(Cf. p. 6 in 1781 edition)
And felt the mischief of the stedfast gaze;
Trac'd with disorder'd hand Campaspe's charms,
And as their beam the kindling canvas warms,
Triumphant love, with still superior art,
Engraves their wonders on the Painter's heart.
(Cf. p. 6 in 1781 edition)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in "heart" and "engrav" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
11 entries in ESTC (1781, 1782, 1788, 1792, 1794, 1798).
See Monody on Major Andrè. By Miss Seward. (Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To Which Are Added Letters Addressed to Her by Major Andrè in the Year 1769. (Lichfield: Printed and sold by J. Jackson, for the author; sold also by Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; Cadell and Evans, in the Strand, London; Prince, Oxford; Merrill, Cambridge; and Pratt and Clinch, Bath, 1781). <Link to ESTC
Text from The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence. ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1810).
See Monody on Major Andrè. By Miss Seward. (Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To Which Are Added Letters Addressed to Her by Major Andrè in the Year 1769. (Lichfield: Printed and sold by J. Jackson, for the author; sold also by Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; Cadell and Evans, in the Strand, London; Prince, Oxford; Merrill, Cambridge; and Pratt and Clinch, Bath, 1781). <Link to ESTC
Text from The Poetical Works of Anna Seward; with Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence. ed. Walter Scott. 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co., 1810).
Date of Entry
03/08/2005
