"Ambition! thou whose hallow'd flame can live / Only in minds refin'd from the gross elements / Of which the herd of human kind are made!"
— Cowley [née Parkhouse], Hannah (1743-1809)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T. Spilsbury
Date
1779
Metaphor
"Ambition! thou whose hallow'd flame can live / Only in minds refin'd from the gross elements / Of which the herd of human kind are made!"
Metaphor in Context
EDITHA.
First will I find Lord Gondibert.--
What revolutions hath this love accomplish'd!
And shall less power belong to bright ambition?
Ambition! thou whose hallow'd flame can live
Only in minds refin'd from the gross elements
Of which the herd of human kind are made!
This Deity of Fools shall yield to thee.
I'll strait to Gondibert, whose long-pent passion
Will, like a torrent, from its mound break forth,
O'erwhelming its opposers: his fierce transports
With the soft voice of Friendship I will meet,
And guide them to my purpose.
(p. 17)
First will I find Lord Gondibert.--
What revolutions hath this love accomplish'd!
And shall less power belong to bright ambition?
Ambition! thou whose hallow'd flame can live
Only in minds refin'd from the gross elements
Of which the herd of human kind are made!
This Deity of Fools shall yield to thee.
I'll strait to Gondibert, whose long-pent passion
Will, like a torrent, from its mound break forth,
O'erwhelming its opposers: his fierce transports
With the soft voice of Friendship I will meet,
And guide them to my purpose.
(p. 17)
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Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
7 entries in ESTC (1779, 1780, 1797).
See Albina, Countess Raimond; a Tragedy, by Mrs. Cowley: As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. (London: Printed by T. Spilsbury; for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; R. Faulder, New Bond-Street; L. Davis, Holborn; T. Becket, in the Strand; W. Owen, T. Lowndes, and G. Kearsly, Fleet-Street; W. Davis, Ludgate-Hill; S. Crowder, and T. Evans, Pater-Noster-Row; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal-Exchange, 1779). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
See Albina, Countess Raimond; a Tragedy, by Mrs. Cowley: As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market. (London: Printed by T. Spilsbury; for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; R. Faulder, New Bond-Street; L. Davis, Holborn; T. Becket, in the Strand; W. Owen, T. Lowndes, and G. Kearsly, Fleet-Street; W. Davis, Ludgate-Hill; S. Crowder, and T. Evans, Pater-Noster-Row; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal-Exchange, 1779). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
