""How hideous and forlorn! when ruthless care / With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life, / And deaf with passion's storms when pines despair, / And howling furies rouse th'eternal strife."
— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London and Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, at Tully's Head, in the Strand; and J. Balfour, in Edinburgh
Date
1765
Metaphor
""How hideous and forlorn! when ruthless care / With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life, / And deaf with passion's storms when pines despair, / And howling furies rouse th'eternal strife."
Metaphor in Context
"In health how fair, how ghastly in decay
"Man's lofty form! how heavenly fair the mind
"Sublimed by virtue's sweet enlivening sway!
"But ah! to guilt's outrageous rule resign'd,
"How hideous and forlorn! when ruthless care
"With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life,
"And deaf with passion's storms when pines despair,
"And howling furies rouse th'eternal strife.
(p. 19)
"Man's lofty form! how heavenly fair the mind
"Sublimed by virtue's sweet enlivening sway!
"But ah! to guilt's outrageous rule resign'd,
"How hideous and forlorn! when ruthless care
"With cankering tooth corrodes the seeds of life,
"And deaf with passion's storms when pines despair,
"And howling furies rouse th'eternal strife.
(p. 19)
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Reading
Citation
Beattie, James. The Judgment of Paris. A Poem. (London and Edinburgh: T. Becket, P. A. De Hondt, and J. Balfour, 1765). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECOO>
Date of Entry
06/25/2011
