"Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes / The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts."
— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Place of Publication
London
Date
w. c. 1751, 1775
Metaphor
"Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes / The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts."
Metaphor in Context
Begot in tempests, and in thunders born,
Love wildly rages like the foaming main.
With darts and flames some arm his feeble hands,
His infant brow with regal honours crown;
Whilst vanquish'd Reason, bound with silken bands,
Meanly submissive, falls below his throne.
Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes
The gentle pow'r that reigns o'er tender hearts!
Soft Love no tempest hurls, nor thunder shakes,
Nor lifts the flaming torch, nor poison'd darts.
(pp. 147-8, ll. 31-40, p. 239 in Lonsdale)
Love wildly rages like the foaming main.
With darts and flames some arm his feeble hands,
His infant brow with regal honours crown;
Whilst vanquish'd Reason, bound with silken bands,
Meanly submissive, falls below his throne.
Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes
The gentle pow'r that reigns o'er tender hearts!
Soft Love no tempest hurls, nor thunder shakes,
Nor lifts the flaming torch, nor poison'd darts.
(pp. 147-8, ll. 31-40, p. 239 in Lonsdale)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1775, 1777, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1789)
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: E. and C. Dilly, 1775). <Link to ECCO>
Also The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Containing Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady: and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. In Two Volumes. (Dublin: Printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775) [not consulted]. <Link to ESTC>
See also Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Collected in Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
See Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: E. and C. Dilly, 1775). <Link to ECCO>
Also The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Containing Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady: and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. In Two Volumes. (Dublin: Printed for the United Company of Booksellers, 1775) [not consulted]. <Link to ESTC>
See also Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books>
Collected in Roger Lonsdale, ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Date of Entry
06/16/2011
Date of Review
06/16/2011
