"No passion raging like the roaring main, / But calm and gentle as a summer sea."
— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1775
Metaphor
"No passion raging like the roaring main, / But calm and gentle as a summer sea."
Metaphor in Context
No passion raging like the roaring main,
But calm and gentle as a summer sea,
Meek Modesty and Virtue in his train,
What Friendfhip ought, true Love appear'd to be.
(p. 153)
But calm and gentle as a summer sea,
Meek Modesty and Virtue in his train,
What Friendfhip ought, true Love appear'd to be.
(p. 153)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1789).
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>
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
