"Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine."

— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Nutt
Date
1700, 1705
Metaphor
"Let either side abate of their Demands, / And both submit to Reason's high Commands, / For which way ere the Conquest shall encline, / The Loss Britannia will at last be thine."
Metaphor in Context
Let either side abate of their Demands,
And both submit to Reason's high Commands,
For which way ere the Conquest shall encline,
The Loss Britannia will at last be thine.
(p. 165, ll. 349-352)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1700, 1705, 1711, 1721).

First published as The Pacificator. A Poem (London: Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Nutt, 1700). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>

Text from A Second Volume of the Writings of The Author of The True-Born Englishman. Some whereof never before printed. Corrected and Enlarged by the Author. (London: Printed, and sold by the Booksellers, 1705).
Date of Entry
09/18/2013

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.