"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
— Walsh, William (bap. 1662, d. 1708)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Tonson,
Date
1706 [1707]
Metaphor
"The Man that's Resolute and Just, / Firm to his Principles and Trust, / Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind; / No Passions his Designs controll, / Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul, / Can shake his steddy Mind."
Metaphor in Context
The Man that's Resolute and Just,
Firm to his Principles and Trust,
Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind;
No Passions his Designs controll,
Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul,
Can shake his steddy Mind.
(p. 12, ll. 1-6)
Firm to his Principles and Trust,
Nor Hopes, nor Fears can blind;
No Passions his Designs controll,
Not Love, that Tyrant of the Soul,
Can shake his steddy Mind.
(p. 12, ll. 1-6)
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Citation
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1706, 1707).
See William Walsh, Horace, Lib. III. Ode III. Imitated. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1706). <Link to ESTC> <Link to ECCO>
Published anonymously in Poems on Affairs of State, from 1620. to this Present Year 1707. 4 vols. (London, 1707). Text from Poems on Affairs of State, vol. iv. <Link to ECCO>
See William Walsh, Horace, Lib. III. Ode III. Imitated. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1706). <Link to ESTC> <Link to ECCO>
Published anonymously in Poems on Affairs of State, from 1620. to this Present Year 1707. 4 vols. (London, 1707). Text from Poems on Affairs of State, vol. iv. <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/11/2013
