"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our evening hours, / While reason copes with fancy's plastic powers."
— Shepherd, Richard (1731/2-1809)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Flexney
Date
1775
Metaphor
"Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise, / And why to yours her every charm displays; / Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine / On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line; / Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd, / Or fixt a general truth in every mind; / Discussions these will wing our evening hours, / While reason copes with fancy's plastic powers."
Metaphor in Context
Of vulgar minds why nature shuns the praise,
And why to yours her every charm displays;
Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine
On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line;
Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd,
Or fixt a general truth in every mind;
Discussions these will wing our evening hours,
While reason copes with fancy's plastic powers:
Not such the hour of revelry, that brings
Achs to the head, and to the conscience stings.
(I, p. 86)
And why to yours her every charm displays;
Whether the happy strokes of beauty shine
On fancy's mirror, or in HOGARTH's line;
Whether to habit, mode, or place confin'd,
Or fixt a general truth in every mind;
Discussions these will wing our evening hours,
While reason copes with fancy's plastic powers:
Not such the hour of revelry, that brings
Achs to the head, and to the conscience stings.
(I, p. 86)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1775, 1776).
See Miscellanies: in Two Volumes. By the Rev. Richard Shepherd, B. D. Late Fellow of C. C. C. Oxford. (Oxford: Printed for W. Flexney, in Holborn, London; J. Fletcher and S. Parker, in Oxford, 1775).
See Miscellanies: in Two Volumes. By the Rev. Richard Shepherd, B. D. Late Fellow of C. C. C. Oxford. (Oxford: Printed for W. Flexney, in Holborn, London; J. Fletcher and S. Parker, in Oxford, 1775).
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
