"Like mighty rivers, with resistless force / The passions rage, obstructed in their course; / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before."
— Brown, John (1715-1766)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1745
Metaphor
"Like mighty rivers, with resistless force / The passions rage, obstructed in their course; / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before."
Metaphor in Context
Thus still imperious nature plies her part,
And still her dictates work in ev'ry heart:
Each pow'r that sovereign nature bids enjoy,
Man may corrupt, but man can ne'er destroy:
Like mighty rivers, with resistless force
The passions rage, obstructed in their course;
Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,
And drown those virtues which they fed before.
(p. 8)
And still her dictates work in ev'ry heart:
Each pow'r that sovereign nature bids enjoy,
Man may corrupt, but man can ne'er destroy:
Like mighty rivers, with resistless force
The passions rage, obstructed in their course;
Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,
And drown those virtues which they fed before.
(p. 8)
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Provenance
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
