"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)
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Date
1735, 1763
Metaphor
"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
Metaphor in Context
Were high ambition still the power confess'd
That rul'd with equal sway in every breast,
Say where the glories of the sacred nine?
Where Homer's verse sublime, or, Milton, thine?
Nor thou, sweet bard! who "turn'd the tuneful art,
"From sound to sense, from fancy to the heart."
Thy lays instructive to the world hadst giv'n,
Nor greatly justified the laws of heav'n.
(p. 204)
That rul'd with equal sway in every breast,
Say where the glories of the sacred nine?
Where Homer's verse sublime, or, Milton, thine?
Nor thou, sweet bard! who "turn'd the tuneful art,
"From sound to sense, from fancy to the heart."
Thy lays instructive to the world hadst giv'n,
Nor greatly justified the laws of heav'n.
(p. 204)
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Citation
At least 10 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1735, 1748, 1751, 1755 1758, 1765, 1766, 1775, 1782).
See Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle. (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from Robert Dodsley's A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle. (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Text from Robert Dodsley's A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
04/07/2014
