"No further can the Reach of human Mind / Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd."
— Marriott, Thomas (d. 1766)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Owen
Date
1759
Metaphor
"No further can the Reach of human Mind / Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd."
Metaphor in Context
What Science, so sublime, as this, can rise?
How deep the Knowledge of these Mysteries,
Ordain'd to raise fall'n Man, to native Skies!
Such Knowledge will suffice the Wise below,
You cannot, and you need not, further know.
No further can the Reach of human Mind
Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd.
(p. 175)
How deep the Knowledge of these Mysteries,
Ordain'd to raise fall'n Man, to native Skies!
Such Knowledge will suffice the Wise below,
You cannot, and you need not, further know.
No further can the Reach of human Mind
Extend, like Ocean, to its Bounds confin'd.
(p. 175)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1759, 1760, 1775).
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Text from Female Conduct: Being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To Be Practised by the Fair Sex, Before, and After Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. Humbly Dedicated, to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Inscribed to Plautilla. by Thomas Marriott, Esq. (London: Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, Temple-Bar, 1759). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
10/28/2013
