"Vast sea of exstacy, that drowns the mind! / That fierce transfusion of exchanging hearts!"
— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
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Place of Publication
London
Date
1726, 1753
Metaphor
"Vast sea of exstacy, that drowns the mind! / That fierce transfusion of exchanging hearts!"
Metaphor in Context
Is there no more? oh! yet, the last remains!
Crown of our conquest! sweet'ner of our pains!
There is a time, when love no wish denies,
And smiling nature throws off all disguise;
But who can words, to speak those raptures find?
Vast sea of exstacy, that drowns the mind!
That fierce transfusion of exchanging hearts!
That gliding glimpse of heav'n, in pulsive starts!
That veiny rush! that warm, tumultuous roll!
That fire, which kindles body into soul!
And on life's margin strains delight so high,
That sense breaks short, and, while we taste, we die.
(p. 207; cf. p. 202 in 1726 miscellany)
Crown of our conquest! sweet'ner of our pains!
There is a time, when love no wish denies,
And smiling nature throws off all disguise;
But who can words, to speak those raptures find?
Vast sea of exstacy, that drowns the mind!
That fierce transfusion of exchanging hearts!
That gliding glimpse of heav'n, in pulsive starts!
That veiny rush! that warm, tumultuous roll!
That fire, which kindles body into soul!
And on life's margin strains delight so high,
That sense breaks short, and, while we taste, we die.
(p. 207; cf. p. 202 in 1726 miscellany)
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At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1726, 1753, 1754).
See Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Publish’d by Richard Savage, Son of the Late Earl Rivers. (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1726). <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>
See Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Publish’d by Richard Savage, Son of the Late Earl Rivers. (London: Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pall-Mall, 1726). <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
