"Wrong Turns of Head are Nature's greatest Curse, / Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse. / In some odd Light all Objects still they view, / Thus true with them is false, and false is true."
— Paget, Thomas Catesby, Lord Paget (1689-1742)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed, and are to be sold by Fletcher Gyles
Date
1734 [1735?]
Metaphor
"Wrong Turns of Head are Nature's greatest Curse, / Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse. / In some odd Light all Objects still they view, / Thus true with them is false, and false is true."
Metaphor in Context
Wrong Turns of Head are Nature's greatest Curse,
Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse.
In some odd Light all Objects still they view,
Thus true with them is false, and false is true.
In Trifles solemn, diligent and wise,
Important Things as Trifles they despise;
Caressing Enemies, their Friends they shun,
And doat on Knaves, by whom they are undone.
Deaf to Advice, or taking Wrong for Right,
They boldly blunder on in Reason's Spite;
And under clearer Light's obscure Pretence
Live the Antipodes of common Sense.
(p. 7, ll. 171-182)
Improving ev'ry Day from bad to worse.
In some odd Light all Objects still they view,
Thus true with them is false, and false is true.
In Trifles solemn, diligent and wise,
Important Things as Trifles they despise;
Caressing Enemies, their Friends they shun,
And doat on Knaves, by whom they are undone.
Deaf to Advice, or taking Wrong for Right,
They boldly blunder on in Reason's Spite;
And under clearer Light's obscure Pretence
Live the Antipodes of common Sense.
(p. 7, ll. 171-182)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 8 entries in LION, ECCO, and ESTC (1734, 1735, 1736, 1741, 1750, 1757, 1776, 1779).
See An Essay on Human Life. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by Fletcher Gyles over-against Grays Inn in Holborn, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from An Essay on Human Life. By the Right Honourable the Lord Paget. The Third Edition. Corrected and Much Enlarg'd by the Author (Dublin and London: Printed, and Re-printed by George Faulkner, 1736). See also London printing of same year: <Link to Google Books>. And also Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: 1741).
Attributed to Pope and published in A Supplement to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. (1757) and Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope (1776). Excerpts in Roach's Beauties of the Poets (1793, 1794, 1795).
See An Essay on Human Life. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by Fletcher Gyles over-against Grays Inn in Holborn, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from An Essay on Human Life. By the Right Honourable the Lord Paget. The Third Edition. Corrected and Much Enlarg'd by the Author (Dublin and London: Printed, and Re-printed by George Faulkner, 1736). See also London printing of same year: <Link to Google Books>. And also Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: 1741).
Attributed to Pope and published in A Supplement to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. (1757) and Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope (1776). Excerpts in Roach's Beauties of the Poets (1793, 1794, 1795).
Date of Entry
11/17/2013
