"But, as an author of great fame / (I can't just recollect his name) / Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind / By force, or fraud, a woman's mind, / With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains, / But gets his labour for his pains."
— Moore, Sir John Henry (1756-1780)
Place of Publication
Bath
Publisher
Printed by and for R. Cruttwell
Date
1778
Metaphor
"But, as an author of great fame / (I can't just recollect his name) / Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind / By force, or fraud, a woman's mind, / With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains, / But gets his labour for his pains."
Metaphor in Context
Miss Danaë, by guards secur'd,
Was in a brazen tower immur'd;
But, as an author of great fame
(I can't just recollect his name)
Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind
By force, or fraud, a woman's mind,
With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains,
But gets his labour for his pains.
Was in a brazen tower immur'd;
But, as an author of great fame
(I can't just recollect his name)
Has somewhere said, who seeks to bind
By force, or fraud, a woman's mind,
With locks, and bolts, and bars, and chains,
But gets his labour for his pains.
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
5 entries in ESTC (1778, 1779, 1783).
Poetical Trifles. By Sir John Moore (Bath: Printed by and for R. Cruttwell and Sold by J. Dodsley, Robson, and Almon, 1778).
Note, many of the poems in Trifles were first issued in a volume titled The New Paradise of Dainty Devices (J. Almon, 1777).
Poetical Trifles. By Sir John Moore (Bath: Printed by and for R. Cruttwell and Sold by J. Dodsley, Robson, and Almon, 1778).
Note, many of the poems in Trifles were first issued in a volume titled The New Paradise of Dainty Devices (J. Almon, 1777).
Date of Entry
07/18/2011
