"But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd, / Can see true greatness in an honest mind."
— Brown, John (1715-1766)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1745
Metaphor
"But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd, / Can see true greatness in an honest mind."
Metaphor in Context
But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd,
Can see true greatness in an honest mind;
Can see each virtue and each grace unite,
And taste the raptures of a PURE delight;
O visit oft his awful page with care,
And view the bright assemblage treasur'd there.--
Yet deign to hear the efforts of a muse,
Whose eye, not wing, his ardent flight pursues;
Intent from this great archetype to draw,
Or faintly shadow SATIRE's pow'r and law;
Pleas'd, if from hence th' unlearn'd may comprehend,
And rev'rence HIS and SATIRE's generous end.
(p. 6)
Can see true greatness in an honest mind;
Can see each virtue and each grace unite,
And taste the raptures of a PURE delight;
O visit oft his awful page with care,
And view the bright assemblage treasur'd there.--
Yet deign to hear the efforts of a muse,
Whose eye, not wing, his ardent flight pursues;
Intent from this great archetype to draw,
Or faintly shadow SATIRE's pow'r and law;
Pleas'd, if from hence th' unlearn'd may comprehend,
And rev'rence HIS and SATIRE's generous end.
(p. 6)
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Searching in ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1745, 1748, 1749).
See An Essay on Satire: Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Pope. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1745). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Collected in Dodsley's Poems (1748), Vol. III, pp. 315-337.
See An Essay on Satire: Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Pope. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1745). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Collected in Dodsley's Poems (1748), Vol. III, pp. 315-337.
Date of Entry
08/23/2013
