"For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast, / Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost; / And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost."
— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed by John Hayes for the Author, And are to be sold by Francis Hicks ... And by Thomas Basset ... and Samuel Heyrick
Date
1691
Metaphor
"For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast, / Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost; / And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost."
Metaphor in Context
I pass the Doubts, that ly i'th' Sense of Tast:
And those as great, that are in Feeling plac'd.
For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast,
Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost;
And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost.
There may more Senses be, that yet We want,
Whose Absence renders Us so Ignorant.
(ll. 402-8)
And those as great, that are in Feeling plac'd.
For wheresoe'r We look's an unknown Coast,
Our Mind perplex'd in endless Storms is tost;
And in th' Abyss all Wit and Learning lost.
There may more Senses be, that yet We want,
Whose Absence renders Us so Ignorant.
(ll. 402-8)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Date of Entry
06/19/2013
