"And see, with these is holy Friendship found, / With chrystal bosom open to the sight; / Her gentle hand fhall close the recent wound, / And fill the vacant heart with calm delight."

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

Author

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

Work Title

To Stella [from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse]

Place of Publication
London
Date
w. c. 1751, 1775
Metaphor
"And see, with these is holy Friendship found, / With chrystal bosom open to the sight; / Her gentle hand fhall close the recent wound, / And fill the vacant heart with calm delight."
Metaphor in Context
And see, with these is holy Friendship found,
With chrystal bosom open to the sight;
Her gentle hand fhall close the recent wound,
And fill the vacant heart with calm delight.
(p. 146)
Categories
Uncategorized::Crystal Uncategorized::Vacancy Container
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).
Theme
Momus Glass
Date of Entry
06/16/2011

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