"The lover ceas'd--with bolder stroke / His oar the sparkling crystal broke, / While brighter than the current's brim / Soft Fancy's mirror shone for him."

— Anonymous


Author
Date
January 1815
Metaphor
"The lover ceas'd--with bolder stroke / His oar the sparkling crystal broke, / While brighter than the current's brim / Soft Fancy's mirror shone for him."
Metaphor in Context
The lover ceas'd--with bolder stroke
His oar the sparkling crystal broke,
While brighter than the current's brim
Soft Fancy's mirror shone for him.

Starts Mona now?--'tis but the surge
Moans on the rocky rampart's verge,
As safe beneath the islet's side
Led by the waning moon they glide:--
Now, Lady, trust thy pilot's hand,
The bounding boat has touch'd the strand!
(p. 56)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
The European Magazine, and London Review; Containing the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners and Amusements of the Age. by the Philological Society of London. (London: Printed for John Fielding No. 23, Pater Noster Row; John Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly; and John Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill, [1782]-1826). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.