"Quick the magic raptures steal / O'er the fancy kindling brain."
— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Hookham
Date
1790
Metaphor
"Quick the magic raptures steal / O'er the fancy kindling brain."
Metaphor in Context
Pour the rich libation high,
The sparkling cup to Bacchus fill;
His joys shall duce in ev'ry eye,
And chace the forms of future ill!
Quick the magic raptures steal
O'er the fancy kindling brain;
Warm the heart with social zeal,
And song and laughter reign.
(I.iv, p. 195; p. 85 in OUP edition)
The sparkling cup to Bacchus fill;
His joys shall duce in ev'ry eye,
And chace the forms of future ill!
Quick the magic raptures steal
O'er the fancy kindling brain;
Warm the heart with social zeal,
And song and laughter reign.
(I.iv, p. 195; p. 85 in OUP edition)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1796).
Text from A Sicilian Romance. By The Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1790). <Link to volume I, 2nd edition in Google Books><Volume II>
Reading in A Sicilian Romance, ed. Alison Milbank (Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993).
Text from A Sicilian Romance. By The Authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1790). <Link to volume I, 2nd edition in Google Books><Volume II>
Reading in A Sicilian Romance, ed. Alison Milbank (Oxford and New York: OUP, 1993).
Date of Entry
05/31/2013
