"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
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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)
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)
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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
