"Thirsting for Knowledge, but to know the right, / Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight, / To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell, / And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel."
— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. Hughs, for R. Dodsley
Date
w. 1740, 1748
Metaphor
"Thirsting for Knowledge, but to know the right, / Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight, / To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell, / And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel."
Metaphor in Context
Thirsting for Knowledge, but to know the right,
Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight,
To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell,
And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel;
For this you turn the Greek and Roman page,
Weigh the contemplative and active Sage,
And cull some useful flow'r from each historick Age.
(p. 71)
Thro' judgment's optick guide th' illusive sight,
To let in rays on Reason's darkling cell,
And Prejudice's lagging mists dispel;
For this you turn the Greek and Roman page,
Weigh the contemplative and active Sage,
And cull some useful flow'r from each historick Age.
(p. 71)
Provenance
Searching in ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 11 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1748, 1751, 1755, 1758, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1775, 1782, 1789, 1798).
Written in the Year 1740. First published as "An Epistle from Florence. To T. A. Esq Tutor to the Earl of P--." See descriptions as "An Epistle from Florence. To Thomas Ashton, Esq. Tutor to the Earl of Plymouth." Manuscripts in Lewis Walpole Library and Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
Text from A Collection of Poems in Three Volumes. By Several Hands. (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. Dodsley, 1748). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Found also in Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (1758) and Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789).
Written in the Year 1740. First published as "An Epistle from Florence. To T. A. Esq Tutor to the Earl of P--." See descriptions as "An Epistle from Florence. To Thomas Ashton, Esq. Tutor to the Earl of Plymouth." Manuscripts in Lewis Walpole Library and Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
Text from A Collection of Poems in Three Volumes. By Several Hands. (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. Dodsley, 1748). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Found also in Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (1758) and Bell's Fugitive Poetry (1789).
Date of Entry
11/10/2013
