"These easy minds, where all impressions made / At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade"
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Date
1838
Metaphor
"These easy minds, where all impressions made / At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade"
Metaphor in Context
The cousins met, what pass'd with Gwyn was told:
"Alas!" the Doctor said, "how hard to hold
"These easy minds, where all impressions made
"At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade;
"For while so strong these new-born fancies reign,
"We must divert them, to oppose is vain:
"You see him valiant now, he scorns to heed
"The bigot's threat'nings or the zealot's creed;
"Shook by a dream, he next for truth receives
"What frenzy teaches, and what fear believes;
"And this will place him in the power of one
"Whom we must seek, because we cannot shun."
"Alas!" the Doctor said, "how hard to hold
"These easy minds, where all impressions made
"At first sink deeply, and then quickly fade;
"For while so strong these new-born fancies reign,
"We must divert them, to oppose is vain:
"You see him valiant now, he scorns to heed
"The bigot's threat'nings or the zealot's creed;
"Shook by a dream, he next for truth receives
"What frenzy teaches, and what fear believes;
"And this will place him in the power of one
"Whom we must seek, because we cannot shun."
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "impression" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/15/2005
