"Here wisely-flowing Eloquence disdains / To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains: / Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense / And scope allow for All things, but Offence!"
— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed by John Hayes for the Author, And are to be sold by Francis Hicks ... And by Thomas Basset ... and Samuel Heyrick
Date
1691
Metaphor
"Here wisely-flowing Eloquence disdains / To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains: / Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense / And scope allow for All things, but Offence!"
Metaphor in Context
Here wisely-flowing Eloquence disdains
To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains:
Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense:
And scope allow for All things, but Offence!
To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains:
Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense:
And scope allow for All things, but Offence!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "bond" and "soul" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
01/06/2012
