"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."

— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Author

Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)

Work Title

Occasioned by Reading Sonnets Written in the Stile and Manner of Spenser, by T. Edwards, Esq; 1749. [from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse]

Place of Publication
London
Date
1775
Metaphor
"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."
Metaphor in Context
BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave
That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won,
As once they found thee, pensive and alone,
Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave;
Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire,
And softest airs thy rural verse inspire.
(p. 139)
Categories
Fire LIght::Glowing
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1775, 1777, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1789)

See See also 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>

Text from 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>
Date of Entry
06/16/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.