"Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly, / While boldly entering from their beastly stye, / The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)
Work Title
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by William Porter
Date
1792
Metaphor
"Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly, / While boldly entering from their beastly stye, / The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
Metaphor in Context
In birth the public sees no kind of merit!
Think of the present equalizing spirit!
Amidst the populace how rank it springs!
Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly,
While boldly entering from their beastly stye,
The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
(p. 12)
Think of the present equalizing spirit!
Amidst the populace how rank it springs!
Nay, from the palaces the Virtues fly,
While boldly entering from their beastly stye,
The vulgar passions rush to pig with kings!
(p. 12)
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1792, 1794). Searching and finding in Works, vol. 3 (1792, 1794).
See Odes to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode To Macmanus, Townsend, And Jealous, The Thief-Takers; To Caelia. - To A Pretty Milliner. - To The Fleas Of Teneriffe. - To Sir William Hamilton. - To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1792). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
See Odes to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode To Macmanus, Townsend, And Jealous, The Thief-Takers; To Caelia. - To A Pretty Milliner. - To The Fleas Of Teneriffe. - To Sir William Hamilton. - To my Candle, &c. &c. &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by William Porter, 1792). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of Peter Pindar, 4 vols. (London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1816).
Date of Entry
07/03/2012
