"Fancy, fair Mistress of the Poet's Mind, / For ever changing, yet, for ever kind; / Soft, o'er his Dreams, her formful Radiance shed, / And his rapt Soul thro' Heaven's thin Purlieus led; / Seated beside the Star-invading Dame, / Whose Steeds, Wind-footed, paw'd the lambent Flame, / High, as a Widow'd Lover's Grief can climb, / Her Air-built Chariot rose, and hung sublime."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Wilford
Date
1730
Metaphor
"Fancy, fair Mistress of the Poet's Mind, / For ever changing, yet, for ever kind; / Soft, o'er his Dreams, her formful Radiance shed, / And his rapt Soul thro' Heaven's thin Purlieus led; / Seated beside the Star-invading Dame, / Whose Steeds, Wind-footed, paw'd the lambent Flame, / High, as a Widow'd Lover's Grief can climb, / Her Air-built Chariot rose, and hung sublime."
Metaphor in Context
Far-fall'n ALEXIS, who so ill aspir'd,
Sick of successless War, from Wounds retir'd,
Where, while, in Sleep, his Sorrows ebb'd away,
And, hush'd in Darkness, Indignation lay;
Fancy, fair Mistress of the Poet's Mind,
For ever changing, yet, for ever kind;
Soft, o'er his Dreams, her formful Radiance shed,
And his rapt Soul thro' Heaven's thin Purlieus led;
Seated beside the Star-invading Dame,
Whose Steeds, Wind-footed, paw'd the lambent Flame,
High, as a Widow'd Lover's Grief can climb,
Her Air-built Chariot rose, and hung sublime.
(pp. 16-17)
Sick of successless War, from Wounds retir'd,
Where, while, in Sleep, his Sorrows ebb'd away,
And, hush'd in Darkness, Indignation lay;
Fancy, fair Mistress of the Poet's Mind,
For ever changing, yet, for ever kind;
Soft, o'er his Dreams, her formful Radiance shed,
And his rapt Soul thro' Heaven's thin Purlieus led;
Seated beside the Star-invading Dame,
Whose Steeds, Wind-footed, paw'd the lambent Flame,
High, as a Widow'd Lover's Grief can climb,
Her Air-built Chariot rose, and hung sublime.
(pp. 16-17)
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Reading
Citation
Aaron Hill, The Progress of Wit: a Caveat. For the Use of an Eminent Writer. By a Fellow of All-Souls. To which is prefix'd, an Explanatory Discourse to the Reader. By Gamaliel Gunson, Professor of Physick and Astrology. (London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1730). <Link to Google Books>
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Date of Entry
06/21/2013
