"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date
w. 1763, 1776
Metaphor
"By mercy prompted his correcting hand / Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain, / To check tyrannic Passions's wild demand, / And free our Reason from it's slavish chain."
Metaphor in Context
Oft when the phantoms of delusive good
With soft seduction round our senses play,
He bids Affliction lift her chast'ning rod,
And drive their unsubstantial forms away.
By mercy prompted his correcting hand
Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain,
To check tyrannic Passions’s wild demand,
And free our Reason from it’s slavish chain.
(p. 105)
With soft seduction round our senses play,
He bids Affliction lift her chast'ning rod,
And drive their unsubstantial forms away.
By mercy prompted his correcting hand
Inflicts the stroke of salutary pain,
To check tyrannic Passions’s wild demand,
And free our Reason from it’s slavish chain.
(p. 105)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1776, 1789, 1777.
See Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for John, Francis and Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown (no 62.) in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1776). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Women Writers Online: 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, Francis and Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown (no 62.) in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1776). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Women Writers Online: 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
