"But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?"
— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date
1792, 1810
Metaphor
"But would you (as Ithuriel, with his spear, / Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear) / Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?"
Metaphor in Context
But would you (as Ithuriel,[1] with his spear,
Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear)
Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?
The sickly frame salubrious truths displease,
Howe'er adorned, from fancy's moral store;
For "touch" but guilt, "no minister so sore."
Struck the dire toad, at Eve's invaded ear)
Probe, with your searching pen, the mind's disease?
The sickly frame salubrious truths displease,
Howe'er adorned, from fancy's moral store;
For "touch" but guilt, "no minister so sore."
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1792).
Text from The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Clarke, By W. Pople, 1810).
See also Poetical Thoughts, and Views; on the Banks of the Wear. By Percival Stockdale. (Durham: Printed by L. Pennington. Sold in London, by W. Clarke, New Bond Street; Shepperson and Reynolds, Oxford Street; T. and J. Egerton, White Hall; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth, Fleet Street; and T. Vernor, Birchin Lane, 1792).
Text from The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Clarke, By W. Pople, 1810).
See also Poetical Thoughts, and Views; on the Banks of the Wear. By Percival Stockdale. (Durham: Printed by L. Pennington. Sold in London, by W. Clarke, New Bond Street; Shepperson and Reynolds, Oxford Street; T. and J. Egerton, White Hall; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth, Fleet Street; and T. Vernor, Birchin Lane, 1792).
Date of Entry
05/04/2005
