"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."
— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1707, 1710
Metaphor
"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."
Metaphor in Context
Nor ask who in Livonia will succeed,
Whether the Warlike Pole, or Russian Czar,
The sleeping Genius of the North will rouze,
Against the Fury of th' Unthinking Swede,
And ravish their lost Laurels from his Youthful Brows.
Or whether MARLBOROUGH designs
To storm Saar-Louis, or attack the Lines.
Campaigns, My Friend, and Sieges are
Below Thy more important Care.
Nor should such ruffling Storms molest
The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast
Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude
Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude
Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find
On the strong Armour of your Mind,
Which You can straiten or unbend;
Skill'd in those generous Arts which bless
Whom Fortune and the Muse caress,
The Gentleman, the Scholar, and the Friend
Whether the Warlike Pole, or Russian Czar,
The sleeping Genius of the North will rouze,
Against the Fury of th' Unthinking Swede,
And ravish their lost Laurels from his Youthful Brows.
Or whether MARLBOROUGH designs
To storm Saar-Louis, or attack the Lines.
Campaigns, My Friend, and Sieges are
Below Thy more important Care.
Nor should such ruffling Storms molest
The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast
Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude
Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude
Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find
On the strong Armour of your Mind,
Which You can straiten or unbend;
Skill'd in those generous Arts which bless
Whom Fortune and the Muse caress,
The Gentleman, the Scholar, and the Friend
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "unbend" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1707, 1709, 1710).
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, 3rd ed. (London: Printed, and Sold by James Woodward, 1710).
See also Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachilides, Anacreon, and Others. To Which Is Prefix'd a Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing, by Way of Letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, M.A. (London, 1707). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, 3rd ed. (London: Printed, and Sold by James Woodward, 1710).
See also Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachilides, Anacreon, and Others. To Which Is Prefix'd a Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing, by Way of Letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, M.A. (London, 1707). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
05/09/2011
