"No more to that insatiate mind impart / The breast of learning, and the food of art."
— Jones, Jenkin [Captain] (fl. 1798)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
M. Allen
Date
1798 [1797?]
Metaphor
"No more to that insatiate mind impart / The breast of learning, and the food of art."
Metaphor in Context
No more to that insatiate mind impart
The breast of learning, and the food of art:
Leave midnight studies to the sons of health,
Genius to independance, wit to wealth.
Blunt each keen sense, each daring thought control,
And to a common-being shrink thy soul.
O think in time what dire afflictions wait,
What certain ills attend the needy great !
The learned Pauper lives, to want resign'd,
Distress has lawful claims upon his mind ;
To Disappointment's yoke his neck he bends,
Pain, Envy, Penury, his only friends.
(p. 120)
The breast of learning, and the food of art:
Leave midnight studies to the sons of health,
Genius to independance, wit to wealth.
Blunt each keen sense, each daring thought control,
And to a common-being shrink thy soul.
O think in time what dire afflictions wait,
What certain ills attend the needy great !
The learned Pauper lives, to want resign'd,
Distress has lawful claims upon his mind ;
To Disappointment's yoke his neck he bends,
Pain, Envy, Penury, his only friends.
(p. 120)
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
