"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1804, 1816
Metaphor
"Of ink has for ever a flood, / To blacken a bosom of snow!"
Metaphor in Context
But Scandal has always her mud,
At Merit, poor Merit, to throw;
Of ink has for ever a flood,
To blacken a bosom of snow!
At Merit, poor Merit, to throw;
Of ink has for ever a flood,
To blacken a bosom of snow!
Categories
Provenance
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Citation
Not in ESTC.
See Great Cry and Little Wool; or, the Squads in an Uproar; or, the Progress of Politics, or, Epistles, Poetical and Picturesque. Written by Toby Scout, Esq. a Member of the Opposition; and Edited by Peter Pindar, Esq. (London: Printed for C. Spilsbury for J. Walker, 1804).
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Great Cry and Little Wool; or, the Squads in an Uproar; or, the Progress of Politics, or, Epistles, Poetical and Picturesque. Written by Toby Scout, Esq. a Member of the Opposition; and Edited by Peter Pindar, Esq. (London: Printed for C. Spilsbury for J. Walker, 1804).
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
