"Let ev'ry jarring Sound of Discord cease, / Tune all your Thoughts and Words to Beauty's Praise, / To Beauty, that with sweet and pleasant Influence / Breaks Life the Day-star from the chearful East."
— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Jacob Tonson
Date
1706
Metaphor
"Let ev'ry jarring Sound of Discord cease, / Tune all your Thoughts and Words to Beauty's Praise, / To Beauty, that with sweet and pleasant Influence / Breaks Life the Day-star from the chearful East."
Metaphor in Context
EURYMACHUS.
Go to! You are too bitter--But no more;
[To Æthon.]
Let ev'ry jarring Sound of Discord cease,
Tune all your Thoughts and Words to Beauty's Praise,
To Beauty, that with sweet and pleasant Influence
Breaks Life the Day-star from the chearful East.
(I.i, p. 8)
Go to! You are too bitter--But no more;
[To Æthon.]
Let ev'ry jarring Sound of Discord cease,
Tune all your Thoughts and Words to Beauty's Praise,
To Beauty, that with sweet and pleasant Influence
Breaks Life the Day-star from the chearful East.
(I.i, p. 8)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
Eighteen entries in the ESTC (1706, 1714, 1719, 1720, 1726, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1736, 1750, 1764, 1778, 1791).
See Ulysses: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1706). <Link to ECCO>
See Ulysses: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. Written by N. Rowe (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1706). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/23/2013
