"Reflection your Renown, clear as your Conscience; / The stormy Passions of your Soul, allay'd / By Reason to soft Gales, serenely playing / On the full Current of your youthful Blood, / By Nature and Occasion smoothly led / Through a fair Field of Royal Virtues, fruitful / In great Examples, and in solid Joy, / Unblemish'd Fame, and universal Blessings."
— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood
Date
1724
Metaphor
"Reflection your Renown, clear as your Conscience; / The stormy Passions of your Soul, allay'd / By Reason to soft Gales, serenely playing / On the full Current of your youthful Blood, / By Nature and Occasion smoothly led / Through a fair Field of Royal Virtues, fruitful / In great Examples, and in solid Joy, / Unblemish'd Fame, and universal Blessings."
Metaphor in Context
ADELIZA.
I will, the only Way.
Reflection your Renown, clear as your Conscience;
The stormy Passions of your Soul, allay'd
By Reason to soft Gales, serenely playing
On the full Current of your youthful Blood,
By Nature and Occasion smoothly led
Through a fair Field of Royal Virtues, fruitful
In great Examples, and in solid Joy,
Unblemish'd Fame, and universal Blessings.
(IV.i, p. 49)
I will, the only Way.
Reflection your Renown, clear as your Conscience;
The stormy Passions of your Soul, allay'd
By Reason to soft Gales, serenely playing
On the full Current of your youthful Blood,
By Nature and Occasion smoothly led
Through a fair Field of Royal Virtues, fruitful
In great Examples, and in solid Joy,
Unblemish'd Fame, and universal Blessings.
(IV.i, p. 49)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1724).
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Edwin: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Geo. Jeffreys. (London: Printed, and Sold by T. Woodward, J.Walthoe, J.Peele, and T.Wood, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/29/2013
