"'All this experience tells the Soul, and yet / 'These moral men their pence and farthings set / 'Against the terrors of the countless Debt"
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Hatchard
Date
1810
Metaphor
"'All this experience tells the Soul, and yet / 'These moral men their pence and farthings set / 'Against the terrors of the countless Debt"
Metaphor in Context
"All this experience tells the Soul, and yet
"These moral men their pence and farthings set
"Against the terrors of the countless Debt:
"But such compounders, when they come to jail,
"Will find that Virtues never serve as bail.
"These moral men their pence and farthings set
"Against the terrors of the countless Debt:
"But such compounders, when they come to jail,
"Will find that Virtues never serve as bail.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "pence" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
George Crabbe, The Borough, 2nd ed. rev. (London: J. Hatchard, 1810). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
08/23/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
