"Think'st thou, had Fancy's mirror struck his sight, / And brought thy too degenerate deeds to light; / Had shewn thee curst to such a vicious race, / Whose very breath contaminates the place: / How would his manly heart with grief have died / T'have seen this fatal barrier to his pride?"
— Anonymous
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author, and sold by Richard Snagg
Date
1773
Metaphor
"Think'st thou, had Fancy's mirror struck his sight, / And brought thy too degenerate deeds to light; / Had shewn thee curst to such a vicious race, / Whose very breath contaminates the place: / How would his manly heart with grief have died / T'have seen this fatal barrier to his pride?"
Metaphor in Context
Think'st thou, had Fancy's mirror struck his sight,
And brought thy too degenerate deeds to light;
Had shewn thee curst to such a vicious race,
Whose very breath contaminates the place:
How would his manly heart with grief have died
T'have seen this fatal barrier to his pride?
T'have seen the laurels he so nobly won,
Stain'd by the follies of a DERBY's son?
(p. 16)
And brought thy too degenerate deeds to light;
Had shewn thee curst to such a vicious race,
Whose very breath contaminates the place:
How would his manly heart with grief have died
T'have seen this fatal barrier to his pride?
T'have seen the laurels he so nobly won,
Stain'd by the follies of a DERBY's son?
(p. 16)
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Provenance
Searching "fancy's mirror" in ECCO
Citation
Ony 1 entry in ESTC (1773).
The Triumphs of Britannia. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed to George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. (London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Richard Snagg, No 29, Pater-Noster Row, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
The Triumphs of Britannia. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed to George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. (London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Richard Snagg, No 29, Pater-Noster Row, 1773). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/29/2014
