"Vain is alike the Joy we seek, / And vain what we possess, / Unless harmonious Reason tunes / The Passions into Peace."
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Rivington
Date
w. 1748, 1762
Metaphor
"Vain is alike the Joy we seek, / And vain what we possess, / Unless harmonious Reason tunes / The Passions into Peace."
Metaphor in Context
Vain is alike the Joy we seek,
And vain what we possess,
Unless harmonious Reason tunes
The Passions into Peace.
To temper'd Wishes, just Desires,
Is happiness confin'd,
And deaf to Folly's Call, attends
The Music of the mind.
(p. 67)
And vain what we possess,
Unless harmonious Reason tunes
The Passions into Peace.
To temper'd Wishes, just Desires,
Is happiness confin'd,
And deaf to Folly's Call, attends
The Music of the mind.
(p. 67)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789)
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link 2nd edition in Google Books>
See also Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1762). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO><Link 2nd edition in Google Books>
See also Elizabeth Carter, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). <Link to WWO><Same edition in Internet Archive>
Date of Entry
06/23/2011
