"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poet's mind, / Majestick was His Style, and unconfin'd."

— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and Sold by James Woodward
Date
1707, 1710
Metaphor
"No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poet's mind, / Majestick was His Style, and unconfin'd."
Metaphor in Context
Fine was the Matter of the curious Frame,
Which lodg'd his Fiery Guest, and like the same
Nor was a less Resemblance in his Sense,
His Thoughts were lofty, just his Eloquence.
Whene're He spoke, from his Seraphick Tongue
Ten Thousand comely Graces,-ever young,
With new Calliopes and Clio's sprung.
No shackling Rhyme chain'd the free Poet's mind,
Majestick was His Style, and unconfin'd
.
Vast was each Sentence, and each wondrous strain
Sprung forth, unlabour'd, from His fruitful Brain.
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "chain" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1707, 1709, 1710).

Text from Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, 3rd ed. (London: Printed, and Sold by James Woodward, 1710).

See also Poems on Several Occasions. With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachilides, Anacreon, and Others. To Which Is Prefix'd a Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing, by Way of Letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb, M.A. (London, 1707). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/15/2011

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