"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"

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

Author

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

Work Title

Translation of the foregoing Sonnet [from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse]

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
E. and C. Dilly
Date
1775
Metaphor
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
Metaphor in Context
HOW like a wanton lamb that careless play'd,
The fhepherd and the fold forgotten quite,
My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight.
Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!
(p. 183; cf. p. 171 in 1775 ed.)
Categories
Animals::Lamb Uncategorized::Vagrancy
Provenance
Reading; confirmed in ECCO.
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
06/17/2011

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