"In Yorick's heart meek Mercy rear'd her throne."
— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
M. Allen
Date
1798 [1797?]
Metaphor
"In Yorick's heart meek Mercy rear'd her throne."
Metaphor in Context
In Yorick's heart meek Mercy rear'd her throne;
On him the softest beams of feeling shone;
Nature to all he wrote asserts her claim,
And glows with pride at her Le Fever's name.
'Twas me that gave his Shandy manly sense,
Science and satire, wit and eloquence:
At her kind bosom was his Toby nurs'd;
The milk of human kindness quench'd his thirst;
And the redundant streams that dropp'd from him
Foster'd the generous heart of faithful Trim.
(p. 17)
On him the softest beams of feeling shone;
Nature to all he wrote asserts her claim,
And glows with pride at her Le Fever's name.
'Twas me that gave his Shandy manly sense,
Science and satire, wit and eloquence:
At her kind bosom was his Toby nurs'd;
The milk of human kindness quench'd his thirst;
And the redundant streams that dropp'd from him
Foster'd the generous heart of faithful Trim.
(p. 17)
Categories
Provenance
Reading at the Folger
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1798).
Jenkin Jones, Hobby Horses: A Poetic Allegory (London: Printed for M. Allen, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
Jenkin Jones, Hobby Horses: A Poetic Allegory (London: Printed for M. Allen, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
05/16/2013
