"O'er the broad lands, and cross the tide, / On fancy's airy horse I ride, / (Sweet rapture of the mind!) / Till on the banks of Ganges' flood, / In a tall ancient grove I stood / For sacred use design's."
— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence
Date
1706
Metaphor
"O'er the broad lands, and cross the tide, / On fancy's airy horse I ride, /
(Sweet rapture of the mind!) / Till on the banks of Ganges' flood, / In a tall ancient grove I stood / For sacred use design's."
Metaphor in Context
O'er the broad lands, and cross the tide,
On fancy's airy horse I ride,
(Sweet rapture of the mind!)
Till on the banks of Ganges' flood,
In a tall ancient grove I stood
For sacred use design'd.
On fancy's airy horse I ride,
(Sweet rapture of the mind!)
Till on the banks of Ganges' flood,
In a tall ancient grove I stood
For sacred use design'd.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "horse" in HDIS (Poetry); found again "fancy"
Citation
36 entries in ESTC (1706, 1709, 1715, 1731, 1737, 1743, 1748, 1750, 1751, 1753, 1758, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1770, 1772, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799).
See Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Two books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).
See Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Two books. (London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also Isaac Watts, Horæ Lyricæ. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). <Link to ECCO>
Text from The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D., 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).
Date of Entry
07/05/2012
