"While affection fond as fair, / Forms a chain of every hair, / A chain, which round the willing mind, / Sensibility shall bind."
— Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseud. Courtney Melmoth] (1749-1814)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Becket
Date
1785
Metaphor
"While affection fond as fair, / Forms a chain of every hair, / A chain, which round the willing mind, / Sensibility shall bind."
Metaphor in Context
Precious gift! O may'st thou rest,
Dear associate of my breast!
Happy shall I, Clara, be,
Thus possessing part of thee!
While affection fond as fair,
Forms a chain of every hair,
A chain, which round the willing mind,
Sensibility shall bind.
(vol. II, p. 110)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "chain" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Miscellanies, 4 vols. (London: printed for T. Becket, 1785) <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/19/2011
