"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Place of Publication
London
Date
1775
Metaphor
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
Metaphor in Context
For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue,
And on his soul fantastic terrors croud,
Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view
Where Fate has spread her providential cloud.
(p. 177)
And on his soul fantastic terrors croud,
Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view
Where Fate has spread her providential cloud.
(p. 177)
Categories
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>
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
