"With horns, and tail, and hoofs that make folks start; / And in my breast a millstone for a heart!"
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Kearsley
Date
1788
Metaphor
"With horns, and tail, and hoofs that make folks start; / And in my breast a millstone for a heart!"
Metaphor in Context
You're told that in my ways I'm very evil!
So ugly; fit to travel for a show,
And that I look all grimly where I go!
Just like a devil!
With horns, and tail, and hoofs that make folks start;
And in my breast a millstone for a heart!
So ugly; fit to travel for a show,
And that I look all grimly where I go!
Just like a devil!
With horns, and tail, and hoofs that make folks start;
And in my breast a millstone for a heart!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mill" and "heart" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO
Citation
At least 9 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1788, 1792, 1793, 1794).
See Peter’s Pension. A Solemn Epistle to a Sublime Personage. With an Engraving by an Eminent Artist. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788). <Link to 2nd edition in ESTC>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Peter’s Pension. A Solemn Epistle to a Sublime Personage. With an Engraving by an Eminent Artist. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788). <Link to 2nd edition in ESTC>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
12/12/2006
