"Ne’er did thy Voice assume a Master’s Pow’r, / Nor force Assent to what thy Precepts taught; / But bid my independent Spirit soar, / In all the Freedom of unfett’red Thought"
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Rivington
Date
1762
Metaphor
"Ne’er did thy Voice assume a Master’s Pow’r, / Nor force Assent to what thy Precepts taught; / But bid my independent Spirit soar, / In all the Freedom of unfett’red Thought"
Metaphor in Context
Whate’er the tuneful Muse, or pensive Sage
To Fancy warbled, or to Reason show’d,
To treasur’d Stores of each enlighten’d Age
My studious Search to thy Direction ow’d.
Ne’er did thy Voice assume a Master’s Pow’r,
Nor force Assent to what thy Precepts taught;
But bid my independent Spirit soar,
In all the Freedom of unfett’red Thought.
Nor e’er by blind Constraint amd servile Awe,
Compell’d to act cold external Part;
But fixt my Duties by that sacred Law,
That rules the secret Movements of the Heart.
(pp. 62-3)
To Fancy warbled, or to Reason show’d,
To treasur’d Stores of each enlighten’d Age
My studious Search to thy Direction ow’d.
Ne’er did thy Voice assume a Master’s Pow’r,
Nor force Assent to what thy Precepts taught;
But bid my independent Spirit soar,
In all the Freedom of unfett’red Thought.
Nor e’er by blind Constraint amd servile Awe,
Compell’d to act cold external Part;
But fixt my Duties by that sacred Law,
That rules the secret Movements of the Heart.
(pp. 62-3)
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
