"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
— Bickerstaff, Isaac (b. 1733, d. after 1808)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Date
1756
Metaphor
"Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away / Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey; / The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain, / Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain; / The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind, / Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind."
Metaphor in Context
PHOEBUS.
Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away
Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey;
The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain,
Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain;
The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind,
Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind.
(II.i, p. 25)
Oh! my dear love, quick, quickly drive away
Those boding thoughts which on your quiet prey;
The breed of Fancy, gender'd in the brain,
Nurs'd by the grosser spirits, light, and vain;
The vagrant visions of the sleeping mind,
Which vanish wak'd, nor leave a mark behind.
(II.i, p. 25)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Never acted. Only 1 entry in ESTC (1756).
Leucöthoe. A Dramatic Poem (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1756). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Leucöthoe. A Dramatic Poem (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1756). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
08/26/2013
