"Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own."
— Brown, John (1715-1766)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Dodsley
Date
1745
Metaphor
"Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her [Satire] high on reason's throne, / And loads the slave with honours not her own."
Metaphor in Context
Let SATIRE next, her proper limits know;
And e'er she strike, be sure she strikes a foe.
Nor fondly deem, you spy a real fool
At each gay impulse of blind ridicule;
Before whose altar virtue oft' hath bled,
And oft' a fated victim shall be led:
Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her high on reason's throne,
And loads the slave with honours not her own:
Big-swoln with folly, as her smiles provoke,
Profaneness spawns, pert dulness drops a joke!
Say, shall we join a while this gaping crew,
And prove at least, the ideot may be true,
Deride our weak forefathers' musty rule,
Who therefore smil'd, because they saw a fool?
(pp. 15-6)
And e'er she strike, be sure she strikes a foe.
Nor fondly deem, you spy a real fool
At each gay impulse of blind ridicule;
Before whose altar virtue oft' hath bled,
And oft' a fated victim shall be led:
Lo! Shaftsb'ry rears her high on reason's throne,
And loads the slave with honours not her own:
Big-swoln with folly, as her smiles provoke,
Profaneness spawns, pert dulness drops a joke!
Say, shall we join a while this gaping crew,
And prove at least, the ideot may be true,
Deride our weak forefathers' musty rule,
Who therefore smil'd, because they saw a fool?
(pp. 15-6)
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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
