"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"
— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Work Title
Date
July 1797, 1810
Metaphor
"See, while his thunders iron hearts assail, / The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!"
Metaphor in Context
HERE lies of Burke the cold, inactive clay;
His soul exulting in perpetual day:
With universal genius born to shine;
All themes, at once to strengthen, and refine;
Science, in aid of fancy, to engage;
And pour it, softened, on his ardent page.
Survey the beauties of his classick mind;
The critick leaves Longinus far behind.
Hear the great legislator plead the cause
Of instituted; of eternal laws;
Oppression, and rapacity submit
To matchless reason; eloquence, and wit.
See, while his thunders iron hearts assail,
The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!
His soul exulting in perpetual day:
With universal genius born to shine;
All themes, at once to strengthen, and refine;
Science, in aid of fancy, to engage;
And pour it, softened, on his ardent page.
Survey the beauties of his classick mind;
The critick leaves Longinus far behind.
Hear the great legislator plead the cause
Of instituted; of eternal laws;
Oppression, and rapacity submit
To matchless reason; eloquence, and wit.
See, while his thunders iron hearts assail,
The tyrants of each hemisphere turn pale!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "iron" in HDIS (Poetry
Citation
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).
Found in The Scientific Magazine, and Freemasons' Repository (London: Printed and published by George Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand; and sold by Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of all the booksellers and newscarriers in town and country, 1797), vol 2 of 2, p. 52. <Link to ECCO>
Found in The Scientific Magazine, and Freemasons' Repository (London: Printed and published by George Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand; and sold by Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of all the booksellers and newscarriers in town and country, 1797), vol 2 of 2, p. 52. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/07/2005
