"Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind, / And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind."
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1734, 1753
Metaphor
"Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind, / And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind."
Metaphor in Context
Think--and be kind--convert this fruitless pain,
To a fix'd firmness, and a calm disdain .
Since cautious absence can no more be free,
From false reproach, than present smiles will be,
Diffuse those gifts, which heav'n design'd should bless,
Nor let their greatness make their pity less.
Indulging freedom, ev'ry fear disarm,
And, with a conscious scorn of slander, charm.
Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind,
And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind.
(pp. 29-30; cf. p. 24 in 1734 miscellany)
To a fix'd firmness, and a calm disdain .
Since cautious absence can no more be free,
From false reproach, than present smiles will be,
Diffuse those gifts, which heav'n design'd should bless,
Nor let their greatness make their pity less.
Indulging freedom, ev'ry fear disarm,
And, with a conscious scorn of slander, charm.
Bold, in your guarded strength, your heart unbind,
And, to be safe--suppose yourself all mind.
(pp. 29-30; cf. p. 24 in 1734 miscellany)
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Citation
At least 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1734, 1753, 1754).
Found in The Scarborough Miscellany for the Year 1733. a Collection of Original Poems, Tales, Songs, Epigrams, &c. (London: Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter-House in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; in Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting. (London: Printed for the benefit of the family, 1753). <Link to ESTC>
Found in The Scarborough Miscellany for the Year 1733. a Collection of Original Poems, Tales, Songs, Epigrams, &c. (London: Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter-House in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). <Link to ESTC>
Text from The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; in Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting. (London: Printed for the benefit of the family, 1753). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
06/11/2014
